Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

7.15 Class Arrays

Class Arrays helps you avoid reinventing the wheel by providing static methods for common array manipulations. These methods include sort for sorting an array (i.e., arranging elements into ascending order), binarySearch for searching a sorted array (i.e., determining whether an array contains a specific value and, if so, where the value is located), equals for comparing arrays and fill for placing values into an array. These methods are overloaded for primitive-type arrays and for arrays of objects. Our focus in this section is on using the built-in capabilities provided by the Java API. Chapter 19, Searching, Sorting and Big O, shows how to implement your own sorting and searching algorithms, a subject of great interest ...