Collections

Set - No duplicate elements

List - Dynamic Array

Map – key value pair - No duplicate keys - Not extended from collection interface

Iterator helps traversing thru the collection. It allows deletion of elements.

Iterator Enumeraton
Twice as fast
Less memory
Thread safe
Allow delete on collection elements

Iterator List Iterator

Can be used with sets and List Specific to lists
Ony frwrd direction traversal Both directions
Add / replace elements

Iterator : fail fast. The next element on iterator will always check for change in collection data, if it
happens, it throws exception. ConcurrentModificationException

Fail Safe – don’t throw exception

Collection view on map : Set KeySet Collection Values()

Hash Map Hash Table

Allows null No null
Synchronised - good for multithreading
Fail fast Not fail fast.
Vector Array list
Synchronised Not synchronized
Slow Fast

Vector, Hashtable, Properties and Stack are synchronized classes

Concurrent collection classes: Fail safe

CopyOnWriteArrayList, ConcurrentHashMap, CopyOnWriteArraySet

Comparable interface - self sorting - compareTo(T obj) – invoked by this.

Comparator : Comparable.compareTo(Object o) – we can implement
multiple logics to compare.

Collections.unmodifiableCollection(Collection c) the receiving

functions will not beable to modify it