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Collections: (An Easy Way To Manage Objects)

Collections allow storing and managing multiple objects or elements. Java supports collections through its Collections Framework in the java.util package. Collections are preferable to arrays because they are dynamically sized, support common operations like insertion and removal, and can hold heterogeneous data. The main types of collections are lists, sets, and maps. Important methods for all collections include adding and removing elements, checking for emptiness or containing elements, and retrieving an iterator.

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Collections: (An Easy Way To Manage Objects)

Collections allow storing and managing multiple objects or elements. Java supports collections through its Collections Framework in the java.util package. Collections are preferable to arrays because they are dynamically sized, support common operations like insertion and removal, and can hold heterogeneous data. The main types of collections are lists, sets, and maps. Important methods for all collections include adding and removing elements, checking for emptiness or containing elements, and retrieving an iterator.

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COLLECTIONS

(An easy way to manage


Objects)
What Is A Collection ?
As the name indicates,a collection is a group of objects
known as its elements. Examples of collections are :
1. List of email ids
2. List Of Names
3. List of phone numbers
4. Records Of Students
5. Records of books . etc
How Java supports Collections ?
To handle such collection of objects, Java offers us a huge
set of predefined classes and interfaces called as
“The Collections Framework”

which is available in the package “java.util”


Why do we need to learn Collection ?
The first question which comes in mind of every programmer is
Why should I use Collection classes when I have an array ?
Answer:
Although arrays are very useful data storage structures but they
suffer from several important drawbacks which are:
1.Size needs to be declared at the time of declaration, so can
only be used if we know beforehand how many elements we
would be storing
2.Remains of fixed size
3.No ready made methods for performing operations like
inserting , removing , searching or sorting
4. Arrays are not based on any popular Data Structure
5. Can only hold homogeneous data elements
Advantages Of Collections

1. Can dynamically grow or shrink

2. Reduces programming effort

3. Increases program speed and quality

4. Provide predefined methods to perform all C R U D


operations
Arrays V/s Collections
Array Collections
Arrays are fixed in size , so once we Collections are growable by nature so
have created the array we can not after creation we can increase or
increase or decrease it’s size decrease their size

Arrays can hold primitives as well as Collections don’t work with primitives ,
objects they only can hold objects

Arrays can hold only homogeneous Collections can hold both


data homogeneous as well as
heterogeneous data

Good performance but poor memory Poor performance but good memory
utilization utilization

Coding is complex Coding is easy


Types Of Collections
There are 3 main types of collections:

• Lists: always ordered, may contain duplicates and can be


handled the same way as usual arrays
• Sets: cannot contain duplicates and provide random
access to their elements
• Maps: connect unique keys with values, provide random
access to its keys
The Collection Hierarchy
Important Methods Of Collections
The Collection interface is one of the root interfaces of the
Java collection classes. The general methods list of the
collection interface is:
1. boolean add(Object obj)
2. void clear( )
3. boolean contains(Object obj)
4. boolean equals(Object obj)
5. int hashCode( )
6. boolean isEmpty( )
7. Iterator iterator( )
8. boolean remove(Object obj)
9. int size( )

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