At the base of the Framework are the interfaces java.util.Collection and java.util.Map. The Collection interface represents just a group of objects, with no particular order or restriction.

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Since the introduction of the Java Collections Framework with JDK 1.2, I have used Java arrays significantly less frequently than I used to. However, I still use arrays occasionally, often because ...