Manipulating these data sets can be a complex and frustrating task. To ease the programmer’s job, Java introduced the Java Collections Framework collections in 1998.

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 ...

Generics in the Java Collections Framework Generics are integrated into Java Collections to provide compile-time type checking and to eliminate the need for explicit type casting.

History of Java Collections Frameworks Looking back at the initial alternative data structure collections available, Doug Lea, who serves on the faculty at the State University of New York at ...

Java Collections Framework However, classes in the Java Collections Framework provide a wide range of functionality, especially when it comes to how contained elements are managed, sorted, compared ...