The Collections Framework

The collections framework is a unified architecture forrepresenting and manipulating collections, enabling them to bemanipulated independently of the details of their representation.It reduces programming effort while increasing performance. Itenables interoperability among unrelated APIs, reduces effort indesigning and learning new APIs, and fosters software reuse. Theframework is based on more than a dozen collection interfaces. Itincludes implementations of these interfaces and algorithms tomanipulate them.

Overview

Overview - An overview ofthe collections framework.

API Specification

API Reference - Anannotated outline of the classes and interfaces comprising thecollections framework, with links into the JavaDoc.

Tutorials and Programmer's Guides

Tutorial- A tutorial introduction to the collections framework with manyprogramming examples.

API Enhancements

API Enhancements in Java SE8 - An annotated list of API changes between release 7 and8.
API Enhancements in Java SE7 - An annotated list of API changes between release 6 and7.
API Enhancements in Java SE6 - An annotated list of API changes between release 5.0and 6.
API Enhancements in J2SE 5.0- An annotated list of API changes between release 1.4 and5.0.
API Enhancements in J2SDK1.4 - An annotated list of API changes between release 1.3and 1.4.

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