Retrieval Order of Iterator Interface

[Rajendra Prakash]

what is the retrieval order of Iterator. I mean iterator iterates Inserted order or reverse order.
If i want to change the order means, what i have to do

[Jesper de Jong]

That depends entirely on the collection you're iterating over. Some collections have a defined order (for example a List), some are not ordered (for example a HashSet), so the order of iteration is undefined.

[Rob Spoor]

Note that undefined does not mean random. The order will most likely be the same if you're iterating twice in a row without modifying the collection.

[Jesper de Jong]

Rob Prime wrote:The order will most likely be the same if you're iterating twice in a row without modifying the collection.

Yes, but there's no guarantee that that's always so, so don't write your program to rely on that fact.

[Lalit Mehra]

There always is some order an Iterator iterates on ...

the only thing is that sometimes its known as in case of a linked list ... and sometimes it's not as in case of a hashmap ...

as haspmaps store elements using hashing while in a linked list the iteration is simple ... using the links only ..