Chapter 8. Collection API enhancements
This chapter covers
- Using collection factories
- Learning new idiomatic patterns to use with List and Set
- Learning idiomatic patterns to work with Map
Your life as a Java developer would be rather lonely without the Collection API. Collections are used in every Java applications. In previous chapters, you saw how useful the combination of Collections with the Streams API is for expressing data processing queries. Nonetheless, the Collection API had various deficiencies, which made it verbose and error-prone to use at times.
In this chapter, you will learn about new additions to the Collection API in Java 8 and Java 9 that will make your life easier. First, you learn about the collections factories in ...
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