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 interfaces java.util.List and java.util.Set extend Collection, representing more specialized data structures and adding more operations and/or constraints. List represents a sequence of ...

Examples of generic types in Java Raw types vs. generics Why use generics? Generics are commonly used in the Java Collections Framework with java.util.List, java.util.Set, and java.util.Map.

With the sequenced collections proposal, all of the new methods declared in the new interfaces have default implementations. Sequenced collections would be added to the standard edition of Java ...