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 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 ...

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I'm working with a code base that currently uses both collections4 and guava (and some LambdaJ), and I'm thinking of making a strong push towards eliminating one or the other. A bunch of stuff I've ...

Java started its life in the early 1990s as an attempt to develop an architecture-independent language that could be used in consumer electronics and other embedded contexts. It found itself in the ...