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Originally published at Internet.comJava Programming, Lecture Notes #1366 * Preface * Preview * Discussion and Sample Program * Summary * What's Next -----------------------------------
Preface
A miniseries
This is the ninth lesson in 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 8, The Comparable Interface, Part 2.
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 first lesson in a sub-series on the Comparator interface. The purpose of the lessons in this sub-series is to teach you about the interactions between the Comparator interface and the Collections Framework, particularly with respect to the Set, SortedSet, and SortedMap interfaces of the Collections Framework. This lesson discusses Set and SortedSet. A discussion of SortedMap will be deferred for inclusion in a subsequent lesson.
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