At the base of the Framework are the interfaces java.util.Collection and java.util.Map. The Collection interface represents just a group of objects, with no particular order or restriction.

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To illustrate how generics are used in the Java Collections Framework, let’s look at some examples. List and ArrayList with generics. In the above example, we already briefly explored a simpler ...

The collections framework was designed to meet several goals. The framework had to be high-performance. The implementations for the fundamental collections (dynamic arrays, linked lists, trees, and ...