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Java Generics and Collections
By Maurice Naftalin, Philip Wadler
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: October 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-596-52775-6
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-652775-4
Pages: 294

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		Dedication
		Preface
		Part I:  Generics
			Chapter 1.  Introduction
				Section 1.1.  Generics
				Section 1.2.  Boxing and Unboxing
				Section 1.3.  Foreach
				Section 1.4.  Generic Methods and Varargs
				Section 1.5.  Assertions
			Chapter 2.  Subtyping and Wildcards
				Section 2.1.  Subtyping and the Substitution Principle
				Section 2.2.  Wildcards with extends
				Section 2.3.  Wildcards with super
				Section 2.4.  The Get and Put Principle
				Section 2.5.  Arrays
				Section 2.6.  Wildcards Versus Type Parameters
				Section 2.7.  Wildcard Capture
				Section 2.8.  Restrictions on Wildcards
			Chapter 3.  Comparison and Bounds
				Section 3.1.  Comparable
				Section 3.2.  Maximum of a Collection
				Section 3.3.  A Fruity Example
				Section 3.4.  Comparator
				Section 3.5.  Enumerated Types
				Section 3.6.  Multiple Bounds
				Section 3.7.  Bridges
				Section 3.8.  Covariant Overriding
			Chapter 4.  Declarations
				Section 4.1.  Constructors
				Section 4.2.  Static Members
				Section 4.3.  Nested Classes
				Section 4.4.  How Erasure Works
			Chapter 5.  Evolution, Not Revolution
				Section 5.1.  Legacy Library with Legacy Client
				Section 5.2.  Generic Library with Generic Client
				Section 5.3.  Generic Library with Legacy Client
				Section 5.4.  Legacy Library with Generic Client
				Section 5.5.  Conclusions
			Chapter 6.  Reification
				Section 6.1.  Reifiable Types
				Section 6.2.  Instance Tests and Casts
				Section 6.3.  Exception Handling
				Section 6.4.  Array Creation
				Section 6.5.  The Principle of Truth in Advertising
				Section 6.6.  The Principle of Indecent Exposure
				Section 6.7.  How to Define ArrayList
				Section 6.8.  Array Creation and Varargs
				Section 6.9.  Arrays as a Deprecated Type?
				Section 6.10.  Summing Up
			Chapter 7.  Reflection
				Section 7.1.  Generics for Reflection
				Section 7.2.  Reflected Types are Reifiable Types
				Section 7.3.  Reflection for Primitive Types
				Section 7.4.  A Generic Reflection Library
				Section 7.5.  Reflection for Generics
				Section 7.6.  Reflecting Generic Types
			Chapter 8.  Effective Generics
				Section 8.1.  Take Care when Calling Legacy Code
				Section 8.2.  Use Checked Collections to Enforce Security
				Section 8.3.  Specialize to Create Reifiable Types
				Section 8.4.  Maintain Binary Compatibility
			Chapter 9.  Design Patterns
				Section 9.1.  Visitor
				Section 9.2.  Interpreter
				Section 9.3.  Function
				Section 9.4.  Strategy
				Section 9.5.  Subject-Observer
		Part II:  Collections
			Chapter 10.  The Main Interfaces of the Java Collections Framework
			Chapter 11.  Preliminaries
				Section 11.1.  Iterable and Iterators
				Section 11.2.  Implementations
				Section 11.3.  Efficiency and the O-Notation
				Section 11.4.  Contracts
				Section 11.5.  Collections and Thread Safety
			Chapter 12.  The Collection Interface
				Section 12.1.  Using the Methods of Collection
				Section 12.2.  Implementing Collection
				Section 12.3.  Collection Constructors
			Chapter 13.  Sets
				Section 13.1.  Implementing Set
				Section 13.2.  SortedSet and NavigableSet
				Section 13.3.  Comparing Set Implementations
			Chapter 14.  Queues
				Section 14.1.  Using the Methods of Queue
				Section 14.2.  Implementing Queue
				Section 14.3.  BlockingQueue
				Section 14.4.  Deque
				Section 14.5.  Comparing Queue Implementations
			Chapter 15.  Lists
				Section 15.1.  Using the Methods of List
				Section 15.2.  Implementing List
				Section 15.3.  Comparing List Implementations
			Chapter 16.  Maps
				Section 16.1.  Using the Methods of Map
				Section 16.2.  Implementing Map
				Section 16.3.  SortedMap and NavigableMap
				Section 16.4.  ConcurrentMap
				Section 16.5.  ConcurrentNavigableMap
				Section 16.6.  Comparing Map Implementations
			Chapter 17.  The Collections Class
				Section 17.1.  Generic Algorithms
				Section 17.2.  Collection Factories
				Section 17.3.  Wrappers
				Section 17.4.  Other Methods
		About the Authors
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		Index