about ConcurrentModificationException?

From:
rmn190 <rmn190@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:33:05 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<7650fcfd-5aba-4865-b365-653ec2d4879b@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
import java.util.*;

public class TryIteratorRemove {
    public static void main(String [] args){
        Collection<String> myCollection = new ArrayList<String>(10);

        myCollection.add("123");
        myCollection.add("456");
        myCollection.add("789");

        int i=0;

        for(Iterator it = myCollection.iterator();it.hasNext();) {
            String myObject = (String)it.next();
            System.out.println(myObject);

            i++;

            if(i==1){
                //myCollection.remove(myObject);
                it.remove();
            }
        }

        System.out.println("After remove,the size of myCollection is: " +
                       myCollection.size()+" \n and its content is: ");

        for(String s : myCollection){
            System.out.println(s);
        }
    }
}

    For the code above,why there is an exception
"ConcurrentModificationException" thrown when i want to remove the
String of "123" from myCollection,using the statement of
"myCollection.remove(myObject);"?and using the statement of
"it.remove()",there is not.

    Please help with that.

    Thanks a lot in advance!

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