I have found these various “singleton” methods to be useful for passing a single value to an API that requires a collection of that value. Of course, this works best when the code processing the ...

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. In this first article in a two-part series, I ...

One of the conveniences of Groovy is the ability to easily perform filtering and transformation operations on collections via Groovy’s closure support. Guava brings filtering and transformation on ...

Many data structures have been developed so programmers can store and retrieve values efficiently. The Java API provides implementations of common data structures and algorithms, as well as a ...

Here's the deal. In the project I'm currently working on (it's in Java if you missed the subject line) I have several classes that provide access to a Collection of elements. These elements need to be ...

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