11.3. Sets
Unlike other implementations of the Collection interface, implementations of the Set interface do not allow duplicate elements. This also means that a set can contain at most one null value. The Set interface does not define any new methods, and its add() and addAll() methods will not store duplicates. If an element is not currently in the set, two consecutive calls to the add() method to insert the element will first return true, then false. A Set models a mathematical set (see Table 11.3), that is, it is an unordered collection of distinct objects.
Multisets (a.k.a. bags) that allow duplicate elements cannot be implemented using the Set interface since this interface requires that elements are unique in the collection.
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