The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part series, I ...

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Certain principles hold for the use of iterators: In general, you should be able to have multiple traversals in progress at the same time; that is, an iterator should allow for the concept of nested ...

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One of the conveniences of Groovy is the ability to easily perform filtering and transformation operations on collections via Groovy’s closure support. Guava brings filtering and transformation on ...

I'm working with a code base that currently uses both collections4 and guava (and some LambdaJ), and I'm thinking of making a strong push towards eliminating one or the other. A bunch of stuff I've ...