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A List with a fixed size

There isn’t a class that extends List for which you can set a limit on its size and that it behaves like a Queue object if you add an item beyond its fixed size.

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Java

Copying an array in java

In this post I show some ways to copy arrays of primitive data and objects to another array.

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Java

The Comparator interface

In the previous post about the Comparable interface I explained how you can extend a class of objects that implement the Comparable interface and then order them in a list according to the logic defined in the overridden method compareTo.
If you want to be able to sort the list according to a number of different criteria you must use the Comparator interface, for example, in the case of a list of countries, it is possible that you want to order them not only alphabetically but also in order of area or population.

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Java

The Comparable interface

A List contains objects that you can order according to a natural order using the static method Collections.sort(List list) if the objects implement the Comparable interface.