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Java Cookbook
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Java Cookbook

by Ian F. Darwin
June 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
888 pages
21h 1m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Finally, Collections

Problem

You’re having trouble keeping track of all these lists, sets, and iterators.

Solution

There’s a pattern to it. See Figure 7-3 and Table 7-2.

Discussion

Figure 7-3, in the fashion of the package-level class diagrams in the Java in a Nutshell books, shows the collection-based classes from package java.util.

The Collections Framework

Figure 7-3. The Collections Framework

See Also

The Javadoc documentation on Collections, Arrays, List, Set, and the classes that implement them provides more details than there’s room for here. Table 7-2 may further help you to absorb the regularity of the Collections Framework.

Table 7-2. Java Collections

Interfaces

Implementations

Resizable array

Hashed table

Linked list

Balanced tree

Set
 
HashSet
 
TreeSet
List
ArrayList, Vector
 
LinkList
 
Map
 
HashMap, Hashtable
 
TreeMap
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