Re: Generics on map.
thufir wrote:
What's a good book to explain this method? Not a beginner's book. Is
this "map" similar to the "map" in ruby?
Mark Space wrote:
Well, _Learning Java_ by O'Reilly is a good book ...
It definitely gets a thumbs up from me.
However, there is also the online Java tutorial from Sun, ...
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/index.html>
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Map.html>
Bird's-eye view of the Java Map, from that link:
public interface Map<K,V>
An object that maps keys to values. A map cannot contain duplicate keys;
each key can map to at most one value.
Some scripting languages, including Java EE's own Expression Language (EL),
depict maps as associative arrays: ${ranches ["BelongaMick"]}.
The "<K, V>" in the interface are the key and value types, respectively. Any
two object types can be associated in a Map.
Map <String, Entity> namedEntities = new HashMap <String, Entity> ();
namedEntities.put( "Mjolnir", new MagicHammerEntity( "Mjolnir", "Thor" ) );
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