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 series, I ...

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The Java Iterator is an all-purpose interface that simplifies looping through a collection of objects. Java's ListIterator provides all the functionality of the Iterator interface, with four ...

Newcomers to the Java language often experience confusion. Their bafflement is largely due to Java’s palette of exotic language features, such as generics and lambdas. However, even simpler features ...

Section 8.1.3 of the Java Language Specification (JLS) states, “The class java.lang.Object … is the primordial class and has no direct superclass.” That means java.lang.Object serves as the root class ...