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. This article explains the concepts behind ...

Because of their object-oriented design, the Java classes in the Collections Framework encapsulate both the data structures and the algorithms associated with these abstractions. The framework ...

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about generics and see three examples of using them with the Java Collections Framework.

The Java API provides implementations of common data structures and algorithms, as well as a framework to organize them. In this free PDF download, you will learn how to work with lists, sets ...

Java's collections framework has long needed a collection type that represents a sequence of elements with a defined encounter order and a uniform set of operations that apply across such collections.

This article discusses the purpose behind the Java Collections Framework, how Java collections work, and how developers and programmers can use Java collections to their best advantage.

The Java Collections Framework (JCF), introduced in 1998 in JDK 1.2, is quickly becoming the standard for storing dynamic data in Java systems. Many new APIs use JCF’s container interfaces to ...