Objectives : List collection
  • List tenders a zero based index to the elements added /stored
  • List Can store objects of any type
  • Taken from Eclipse Help "An ordered collection (also known as a sequence). The user of this interface has precise control over where in the list each element is inserted ".
List Interface :
  • List Interface is the base of other list types
    • ArrayList: not thread safe. Tenders random access
    • LinkedList: not thread safe, preferred when adding and removing at the end of list is required.
    • Vector: Thread Safe
List Basic Operation:
  • add(Object), add(index, Object) and addAll() are used to add elements to the list.
List methods.
add(Object) would allow any data type:

add( specific-data-type) would only allow the similar data type, and in the case of String data type if you try to add integers, the compiler would throw an error.