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 series, I ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java 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.

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Addressing an issue that has been a source of ongoing complaints, Java could add sequenced collections, sequenced sets, and sequenced maps, anchored by interfaces to represent collections with a ...

The Java Iterator is an all-purpose interface that simplifies looping through a collection of objects. Java's ListIterator provides all the functionality of the Iterator interface, with four ...

Oracle on Friday announced the first release of Project Helidon, a new collection of Java Libraries for writing microservices, and officially joined the Eclipse MicroProfile effort. Helidon is an open ...