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.

The documents in this section are non-normative portions ofthe Java Platform, Standard Edition API Specification.

• Overview - An overview ofthe collections framework.

• Annotated API Outline - Anannotated outline of the classes and interfaces comprising thecollections framework, with links into the API Specification.

• Design FAQ - Answers tofrequently asked questions (FAQ) about the design of thecollections framework.

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