Java - Collections Framework
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Prior to Java 2, Java provided ad hoc classes such as Dictionary, Vector, Stack, and Properties to store and manipulate groups of objects. Although these classes were quite useful, they lacked a central, unifying theme. Thus, the way that you used Vector was different from the way that you used Properties. The collections framework was designed to meet several goals, such as − The framework had to be high-performance. The implementations for the fundamental collections (dynamic arrays, linked lists, trees, and hashtables) were to be highly efficient. The framework had to allow different types of collections to work in a similar manner and with a high degree of interoperability. The framework had to extend and/or adapt a collection easily. Towards this end, the entire collections framework is designed around a set of standard interfaces. Several standard implementations such as LinkedList, HashSet, and TreeSet , of these interfaces are provided that you may use a
