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My general preference is to use immutable classes and collections as often as possible. I have often used the Collections methods for returning unmodifiable collections. One drawback of the ...

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I'm working with a code base that currently uses both collections4 and guava (and some LambdaJ), and I'm thinking of making a strong push towards eliminating one or the other. A bunch of stuff I've ...

Have you ever wondered why the java.util.Collections class includes various “empty” class methods, which return immutable empty collections and immutable empty iterators? This post answers this ...