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 ...

Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections Framework. Introduced in Java 5, generics enhance the type safety of your code and make it easier to read.

The Java Collections Framework (JCF), introduced in 1998 in JDK 1.2, is quickly becoming the standard for storing dynamic data in Java systems. Many new APIs use JCF’s container interfaces to ...

There is a need to obtain the numeric index of the previous or next element in an ordered collection. The Java Collections Framework provides a wealth of classes, interfaces, enums and records to help ...