static initialization of arrays

From:
 Johan <johanditmar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:33:56 -0700
Message-ID:
<1192487636.584566.41460@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com>
Hi guys,

I started to write some Java today, see the code below. What I want to
do is produce a static array V from several static arrays A, B, ...,
but I don't want V to have any duplicate elements. I was wondering if
there is a better way of coding this up? Also, is there a way to
guarantee that arrays A, B, ... are constructed before S and V without
relying on the order in which they are declared?

Thanks,

Johan

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import java.util.*;

class StringSet extends TreeSet<String>
{
    public void addAll( String[] strings )
    {
        for (String s: strings )
        {
            add( s );
        }
    }
};

class Main
{
    private static final String[] A = { "A1", "A2", "B1" };
    private static final String[] B = { "B1", "B2" };
    ...

    private static final StringSet S =
        new StringSet ()
        {
            {
                addAll( A );
                addAll( B );
                ...
            }
        };

    private static final String[] V = S.toArray(new String[S.size()]);

    ...
}

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