Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
No. But they both extend AbstractList, so you can typecast to that.
True, but note that AbstractList's public methods are precisely
the same as List's, so I would more likely write:
On the other hand, I think the OP wanted to *cast* ("convert*) an existing ArrayList
to a Vector: you can't do that, but you can create a new Vector that
holds copies of the references found in the ArrayList:
Note that v != arrayList, although v.equals(arrayList).
Of course, in the best of all possible worlds, just being of type List should suffice!