The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part ...

The Java Collections Framework (JCF), introduced in 1998 in JDK 1.2, is quickly becoming the standard for storing dynamic data in Java systems. Many new APIs use JCF’s container interfaces to ...

This module takes you on an extended tour of the Collections Framework, first introduced with the Java 2 platform, Standard Edition, version 1.2. The Collections Framework provides a well-designed set ...

Motivating the plan are two gaps in Java’s collections framework, the language’s architecture for representing and manipulating collections: It lacks a collection type that represents a ...

There is a need to obtain the numeric index of the previous or next element in an ordered collection. The Java Collections Framework provides a wealth of classes, interfaces, enums and records to help ...