I don’t show the code right now, but my example creates these Maps with four specific implementations: HashMap, LinkedHashMap, ConcurrentHashMap, and EnumMap.

A colleague of mine recently ran into an issue that I have not run into myself, but found to be interesting and, in my opinion, worth blogging about here. During some distributed Java development ...

Furthermore, the Java API provides a special class called the ConcurrentHashMap which offers synchronization facilities over and above both that of the HashMap and Hashtable. The special class ...

The CopyOnWriteArrayList and ConcurrentHashMap classes use fail-safe iterators. Fail-safe vs. fail-fast Java iterators If the goal is to avoid exceptions, system resources are in plentiful supply, and ...