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Towards the design of a set-based Java collections framework

Published: 22 October 2010 Publication History

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The Java Collections Framework (JCF) was introduced as standard in JDK 1.2. Since then several significant enhancements have been made including the introduction of generics and typed collections. One striking design choice of the Java language designers was the exclusion of map from the collections hierarchy. This paper looks at how maps could be incorporated into the Java collections hierarchy by describing early work on YACL (Yet Another Collections Library). The intention of YACL is to provide a suite of set-based collections classes and operations whilst continuing to be compatible with the JCF.

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Sun Microsystems. Collections Framework Overview. {Online}. Viewed 2010 July 23. Available: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/collections/overview.html.
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Sun Microsystems. Benefits of the Java Collections Framework. {Online}. Viewed 2010 July 23. Available: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/intro/index.html.

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cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes  Volume 35, Issue 5
September 2010
134 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/1838687
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 22 October 2010
Published in SIGSOFT Volume 35, Issue 5

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  1. Java
  2. class design
  3. collections framework

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