Have you ever wondered why the java.util.Collections class includes various “empty” class methods, which return immutable empty collections and immutable empty iterators? This post answers this ...
One of the nasty little traps a Java developer can run into occurs when Collection.contains(Object) is not used with appropriate understanding. I demonstrate this potential trap in this post. This is ...
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 ...