Java 17 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

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J. Juneau, L. ManelliJava 17 Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7963-2_7

7. Data Sources and Collections

Josh Juneau¹   and Luciano Manelli²

(1)

Hinckley, IL, USA

(2)

TARANTO, Taranto, Italy

 

Applications use data structures to store data that can be utilized throughout the lifetime of an application instance. The Java language contains several data structures known as collection types, and they can be utilized for this purpose. These data structures implement the java.util.Collection<E> interface, which provides a variety of methods that are useful for adding, removing, and performing tasks against the data that is used with the collection. This chapter ...