Java 9 High Performance

Why new factory methods?

The ability to express the same functionality in more compact manner is very helpful, but it would probably not be enough motivation to introduce these new factories. It was much more important to address the weakness of the existing implementation of Collections.unmodifiableList(), Collections.unmodifiableSet(), and Collections.unmodifiableMap(). Although the collections created using these methods throw an UnsupportedOperationException class when you try to modify or add/remove their elements, they are just wrappers around the traditional modifiable collections and can thus be susceptible to modifications, depending on the way you construct them. Let's walk through examples to illustrate the point. By the way, another ...