The interfaces java.util.List and java.util.Set extend Collection, representing more specialized data structures and adding more operations and/or constraints. List represents a sequence of ...

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 ...

The Java Collections Framework (JCF), introduced in 1998 in JDK 1.2, is quickly becoming the standard for storing dynamic data in Java systems. Many new APIs use JCF’s container interfaces to ...

To evolve the Java Collections Framework to support Java 8’s Streams API, it was necessary to evolve the interface feature (on which the framework is based) to support default and static methods ...

All the classes released in Java 2 that implement the collection interface contain an iterator () method, which returns an instance of the Iterator. There's nearly universal support for the Iterator ...