While the Hashtable was part of the initial Java release over two decades ago, the HashMap is the correct key-value store to use today. When Java 2 was released, the architects of the language ...

In this quick tutorial on how the Java HashMap works internally, you'll learn the following aspects: The basic syntax of the Java HashMap. How keys, values, hash codes and node references interact.

A colleague of mine recently ran into an issue that I have not run into myself, but found to be interesting and, in my opinion, worth blogging about here. During some distributed Java development ...