The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part ...

Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections Framework. Introduced in Java 5, generics enhance the type safety of your code and make it easier to read.

This module takes you on an extended tour of the Collections Framework, first introduced with the Java 2 platform, Standard Edition, version 1.2. The Collections Framework provides a well-designed set ...

Motivating the plan are two gaps in Java’s collections framework, the language’s architecture for representing and manipulating collections: It lacks a collection type that represents a ...

There is a need to obtain the numeric index of the previous or next element in an ordered collection. The Java Collections Framework provides a wealth of classes, interfaces, enums and records to help ...