Data Structures in Java: Part 16, The toArray Method, Part 2

Baldwin shows you how to use the more-complex version of the toArray method declared in the Collection interface. He discusses issues regarding the type of the array and the types of the objects referred to by the elements in the collection. He also discusses issues regarding the relative sizes of the array and the collection, among other things.

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Java Programming, Lecture Notes #1380 * Preface * Preview * Discussion and Sample Program * Summary * What's Next -----------------------------------

Preface

A miniseries

This lesson is part of a miniseries on Java data structures and the Java Collections Framework. The first lesson in the miniseries was entitled Data Structures in Java: Part 1, Getting Started. The previous lesson was entitled Data Structures in Java: Part 15, The toArray Method, Part 1.

The purpose of this miniseries is to help you learn the essential features of Object-Oriented data structures in Java using the Collections Framework.

A sub-series

This is also the second (and last) lesson in a sub-series on the toArray method. The primary purpose of the lessons in this sub-series is to teach you how to use the overloaded versions of the toArray method, which are declared in the Collection interface.

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Supplementary material

I recommend that you also study the other lessons in my extensive collection of online Java tutorials. You will find those lessons published at Gamelan.com. However, as of the date of this writing, Gamelan doesn't maintain a consolidated index of my Java tutorial lessons, and sometimes they are difficult to locate there. You will find a consolidated index at Baldwin's Java Programming Tutorials.

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The Collection interface declares the following two overloaded versions of the toArray method: ...

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