The Enumeration was originally part of the JDK 1.0 release and was designed to aid developers who needed to loop through Vectors, process HashTable keys or pass data to a SequenceInputStream.While an ...

In Java 1.0 and 1.1, the two primary collection classes were Vector and Hashtable, and the Iterator design pattern was implemented in a class called Enumeration. In retrospect this was a bad name ...