Collection(I)
|---List(I)
|---ArrayList
|---LinkedList
|---Vector
|---Set(I)
|---HashSet
|---TreeSet
|---Queue(I)
Map(I)
|---HashMap
|---LinkedHashMap
|---Hashtable
|---TreeMap
|---ConcurrentHashMap
我们打开源码:第一段:
/**
* The root interface in the <i>collection hierarchy</i>. A collection
* represents a group of objects, known as its <i>elements</i>. Some
* collections allow duplicate elements and others do not. Some are ordered
* and others unordered. The JDK does not provide any <i>direct</i>
* implementations of this interface: it provides implementations of more
* specific subinterfaces like <tt>Set</tt> and <tt>List</tt>. This interface
* is typically used to pass collections around and manipulate them where
* maximum generality is desired.
接着第三段:
* <p>All general-purpose <tt>Collection</tt> implementation classes (which
* typically implement <tt>Collection</tt> indirectly through one of its
* subinterfaces) should provide two "standard" constructors: a void (no
* arguments) constructor, which creates an empty collection, and a
* constructor with a single argument of type <tt>Collection</tt>, which
* creates a new collection with the same elements as its argument. In
* effect, the latter constructor allows the user to copy any collection,
* producing an equivalent collection of the desired implementation type.
* There is no way to enforce this convention (as interfaces cannot contain
* constructors) but all of the general-purpose <tt>Collection</tt>
* implementations in the Java platform libraries comply.
下面这一段:
* <p>Many methods in Collections Framework interfaces are defined in
* terms of the {@link Object#equals(Object) equals} method. For example,
* the specification for the {@link #contains(Object) contains(Object o)}
* method says: "returns <tt>true</tt> if and only if this collection
* contains at least one element <tt>e</tt> such that
* <tt>(o==null ? e==null : o.equals(e))</tt>." This specification should
* <i>not</i> be construed to imply that invoking <tt>Collection.contains</tt>
* with a non-null argument <tt>o</tt> will cause <tt>o.equals(e)</tt> to be
* invoked for any element <tt>e</tt>. Implementations are free to implement
* optimizations whereby the <tt>equals</tt> invocation is avoided, for
* example, by first comparing the hash codes of the two elements. (The
* {@link Object#hashCode()} specification guarantees that two objects with
* unequal hash codes cannot be equal.) More generally, implementations of
* the various Collections Framework interfaces are free to take advantage of
* the specified behavior of underlying {@link Object} methods wherever the
* implementor deems it appropriate.
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