Learn how to fine-tune and parallelize the behavior of Java iterators, using Java 8's forEach() method and Streams API. Then see some performance benchmarks that might surprise you ...

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. This article explains the concepts behind ...

Tackling memory limitations imposed on Java applications, Terracotta on Tuesday will offer what it describes as a breakthrough in solving the "universal problem" of Java garbage collection.

I haven't used the apache collections library, but guava is the very first thing I add to any new java project. Even if you completely exclude the collections part altogether, it is still insanely ...

The Java Iterator is an all-purpose interface that simplifies looping through a collection of objects. Java's ListIterator provides all the functionality of the Iterator interface, with four ...

Java collection classes allow a developer to keep track of contained items in one of two ways, either by an indexed count or a key. This creates an obvious limitation where multiple values can’t be ...