Saturday, 28 May 2011

LinkedHashMap in java

New to J2SE 1.4, the LinkedHashMap class is used in exactly the same way as the HashMap class. It has no additional methods but it does have one additional constructor that we will discuss in a moment. The basic difference between HashMap and LinkedHashMap is that the LinkedHashMap maintains the order of the items added to the Map. It does this by maintaining a doubly linked list containing the hash and the original order of the items. According to Sun, the LinkedHashMap should run nearly as fast as the HashMap.

The LinkedHashMap has one additional constructor that takes an additional boolean parameter. This allows you to construct a LinkedHashMap that maintains items, not in the order that they are added to the Map but rather in the order in which they are accessed.

Example of LinkedHashMap

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