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 ...

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 ...

In this article, we review some of those early attempts, how they evolved with Sun Microsystems’ release of the Java Collections Framework, and how the Java Collections Framework is changing ...