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. This article explains the concepts behind ...

Proposal for enhancing the Java programming language would define interfaces for sequenced collections, sequenced sets, and sequenced maps.

The collections framework was designed to meet several goals. The framework had to be high-performance. The implementations for the fundamental collections (dynamic arrays, linked lists, trees, and ...