Collection Framework,making my mind a bit unstable

[Vishal Hegde]

Finding difficulty in able to understand Collection framework...can anybody provide me a link which explains Collection right from the start

[James Sabre]

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/collections/index.html

[Vishal Hegde]

I mean i know Collection is used for adding, removing object

List ,Set , Tree etc are the interfaces

list can have duplicates, set cannot..

I find difficult in remembering pre defined methods ...also i am not getting a clearcut idea what TreeSet (ofcourse its again a set having unique values ,but whats with the term tree??)

[Campbell Ritchie]

Vishal Hegde wrote: . . . I find difficult in remembering pre defined methods

That is what the API documentation is there for.

...also i am not getting a clearcut idea what TreeSet . . .

You will have to find an algorithms and data structures tutorial or book. You can see what a tree looks like, and draw an example on paper. Try looking for Niklaus Wirth Data Structures and algorithms book.

[Stephan van Hulst]

If you want to remember the methods, you simply have to use the classes a lot. Practice makes perfect.

A tree is a data structure. They are a compromise between arrays (which provide random access) and linked lists (which provide easy insertion and deletion).

A set may use different ways of storing its data. A TreeSet will use a tree to store data, a HashSet will use a hash table to store data, and a LinkedHashSet will use a combination of a linked list and a hash table.

Different ways of storing data have different advantages and disadvantages.