Map, HashMap, and TreeMap
Map is a data structure interface that connects keys and values. Each key has at most one associated value. Some examples of key/value pairs would be driver's license number and “Object representing a licensed driver”, username and password, ISBN and book title. The first of each of these pairs is a key for uniquely retrieving the second. The most obvious way of storing a Map is as a two-column table, and you can get fancier from there.
The Map interface provides three views onto its collection of keys/values. You can see the map as a collection of keys, or as a collection of values, or as a collection of key/value pairs. Once you have these collections back, you can invoke the standard Collection method to get ...
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