Java How To Program, Late Objects, 11th Edition

16 Generic Collections

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll:

• Learn what collections are.

• Use class Arrays for array manipulations.

• Learn the type-wrapper classes that enable programs to process primitive data values as objects.

• Understand the boxing and unboxing that occurs automatically between objects of the type-wrapper classes and their corresponding primitive types.

• Use prebuilt generic data structures from the collections framework.

• Use various algorithms of the Collections class to process collections.

• Use iterators to “walk through” a collection.

• Learn about synchronization and modifiability wrappers.

• Learn about Java SE 9’s new factory methods for creating small immutable Lists, Sets and Maps.

Outline

1. 16.1 Introduction

2. 16.2 Collections ...