An Overview of the Java Collections Framework

This video gives a quick overview of the Java Collections Framework and outlines four different ways to access elements in collections.

[ruixue]

4:19 question: why List interface has different implementations
5:07 answer:
6:26 question: what is advantage of LinkedList
6:37 answer: growing and shrinking doesn't require copy all the elements
7:51 adding and removing things in between are more efficient for LinkedList
8:05 stack
8:36 *JCF uses inheritance and dynamic bindings extensively*
8:42 this is one of the main differences between Java and C++
8:46 C++ and its standard template library doesn't use inheritance and dynamic bindings at all
9:06 in Java everything is dynamically bound
9:20 benefits of JCF
14:38 HashMap

16:28 iterating through collections in Java

[bablobko]

1:35 Slighlty more correct to say that Collections work on user defined types and wrapper classes not with built in primitive types.