Chapter 6. The Collection Framework
The collection framework is a set of high-performance classes used to store and manipulate groups of objects. This framework allows different types of collections to work in a similar manner and is designed around a set of standard interfaces. Several standard implementations of interfaces can be extended or adapted very easily. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- An introduction to the collection framework
- Ordering of elements in collections
- Class hierarchy of the main interfaces
- The Iterable and Iterator interfaces
- The List, Set, Queue, and Map collections implementation
- Immutable collections
- Choosing the right collection
