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Difference between 'collection' and 'Collection'

 
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I would like to know the difference between collection and Collection.
I know Collection is an interface provided in the java.util park but I don't have any idea about 'collection'.

Please help
 
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Without knowing the context its a little hard to say, but I suspect "collection" is probably being used to define a data structure used to store objects without the writer wanting to make a specific reference to the Collection interface (which defines a particular type of collection). So an array could be considered a collection, but not a Collection. Understand?
 
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Thankyou for the response.
I just wanted to know what is 'collection'.


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Mariya
 
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Actually in Java there isn't anything called "collection" with a lower case c.

you will find Collection which you already mentioned, but also Collections, which is a class of static methods to do things like sort, and binarySearch on a List.

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