Collection utilities including binaryHeap, fixed, variable and circular buffers, and priority queues.

These classes have all been deprecated in favor of the Jakarta Commons version of the collection classes.

Overview

The introduction of the Collections API by Sun in JDK 1.2 has been a boon to quick and effective Java programming. Ready access to powerful data structures has accelerated development by reducing the need for custom container classes around each core object. Most Java2 APIs are significantly easier to use because of the Collections API. However, there are certain holes left unfilled by Sun's implementations, and the Jakarta-Commons Collections Component strives to fulfill them. Among the features of this package are: