Collection - HashMap ?

[kri shan]

How to store all three arrays(String array, float array and int array) as HashMaps values ? (or) three different lists instead of arrays. Any other effiient way to return all 3 array values ?

  
public HashMap getValues() {

String[] name = new String[10];
float[] salary = 0.0;
int[] age = 0;

HashMap hashmap = new HashMap();

int i = 1;
here rs is the result set. 
while (rs.next()) {
                 name[i] = rs.getName("name");
                 salary[i] = rs.getFloat("salary");
                 age[i]   = rs.getInt("age");

                  //hashmap.put(, );
                  i++;
 }
return hashmap;
}  

[Christophe Verré]

Why not making a class called Employee, with a name, a salary and an age ? You could then instanciate each employee from the resultset, put it in a List<Employee> and return it. I don't think you need to use HashMap here.