Barring further delays, Java 9 will reach general availability status on July 27. Its module system and Java Shell Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) tool are receiving considerable attention, but Java 9 ...

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 ...

I'm working with a code base that currently uses both collections4 and guava (and some LambdaJ), and I'm thinking of making a strong push towards eliminating one or the other. A bunch of stuff I've ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java collection classes allow a developer to keep track of contained items in one of two ways, ...