The Collections class’s methods for obtaining empty collections are preferable to use of Collections ‘s similarly named fields for that same purpose because of the type safety the methods provide.

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The Set interface inherits its methods from Collection (java.util.Collection) and contains only those methods. In addition to sets, there are queues (java.util.Queue) and maps (java.util.Map).