and retrofit them into the existing collections type hierarchy. Motivating the plan are two gaps in Java’s collections framework, the language’s architecture for representing and manipulating ...

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 ...

The problem becomes especially poignant when a switch statement or a nesting of if statements assumes that a complete collection ... and available since Java 17, let developers limit and control how ...

Finalize is defined right there in the Object class, right at the top of the Java hierarchy, more exposed than a public ... collector would still be thoroughly unpredictable in its trash collection ...