Originally posted by venkatesh badrinathan:
can anyone please explain how the 'map' works?? ofcourse we explicitly do not call equals and hashcode methods, but i do not know when are those methods called and how are the data stored in the map?? i think knowing these details could help me get the concepts..
This is an example from K&B. It is explained there. And darling! a very few in this world can make you understand the core
JAVA better than
Kathy & Bert do. So stick there. I repeat, stick there. Go through the chapter after and after until you grasp it. I went through that chapter thrice and still going through.
-Best of luck............................