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

16.7 Collections Methods

Class Collections provides several high-performance algorithms for manipulating collection elements. The algorithms (Fig. 16.5) are implemented as static methods. The methods sort, binarySearch, reverse, shuffle, fill and copy operate on Lists. Methods min, max, addAll, frequency and disjoint operate on Collections.

Fig. 16.5 | Collections methods.

Software Engineering Observation 16.5

The collections framework methods are polymorphic. That is, each can operate on objects that implement specific interfaces, regardless ...