Collection question

[M Mistroni]

# Please select collection(s) that do not reject duplicates

1. java.util.List
2. java.util.Set
3. java.util.Map
4. All of the above

i choosed 1 and 3... proper answer was only 1.. i know that Map is not an instance of ?Collection, but it is still considered a collection...

anyone could comment?

thankx and regars
marco

[sirisha sirisha]

set and map donot take duplicates.lists take duplicates

[Shaliey Gowtham]

The keys in the Map are internally Set and can be retrieved in a Set.
Since Set doesn't allow duplicates the key values in Map are also not allowed to contain the duplicates.
But the values in Map can be duplicate.

[Deepak Bala]

Yes Maps also fall under the collection category although they dont explicitly implement the Collection interface. So the right answer would be List. By the way Maps do not reject the new duplicate value. The new value will replace the previous one. In Sets the add method will return false when you try to add a new value.

[bnkiran kumar]

Mistroni
List accepts duplicates, Map also accepts duplicates,new value replaces old value.

Map is not a collection but it will become collection by calling methods like Collection values() ,Set keySet()