Appendix B. Miscellaneous library updates
This appendix reviews the main additions to the Java library.
B.1. Collections
The biggest update to the Collections API is the introduction of streams, which we discussed in chapters 4–6. There are also other updates, which we briefly review in this appendix.
B.1.1. Additional methods
The Java API designers made the most out of default methods and added several new methods to collection interfaces and classes. The new methods are listed in table B.1.
Table B.1. New methods added to collection classes and interfaces
Class/interface |
New methods |
---|---|
Map | getOrDefault, forEach, compute, computeIfAbsent, computeIfPresent, merge, putIfAbsent, remove(key, value), replace, replaceAll |
Iterable ... |
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