Java™ How to Program, Seventh Edition

Summary

Section 19.1 Introduction

• The Java collections framework gives the programmer access to prepackaged data structures as well as to algorithms for manipulating them.

Section 19.2 Collections Overview

• A collection is an object that can hold references to other objects. The collection interfaces declare the operations that can be performed on each type of collection.

• The classes and interfaces of the collections framework are in package java.util.

Section 19.3 Class Arrays

• Class Arrays provides static methods for manipulating arrays, including sort for sorting an array, binarySearch for searching a sorted array, equals for comparing arrays and fill for placing items in an array.

• Arrays method asList returns a List view of an array, which ...