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<document>
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<title>Commons Collections - History</title>
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<author email="commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org">Commons Documentation Team</author>
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<body>
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<section name="History of Commons Collections">
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<p>
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Commons-Collections is a classic example of an open-source project evolving over time.
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This page documents some of the key stages.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Collections 1.0</b> was a gathering of different Collection, Comparator, Iterator and
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Utility classes written elsewhere in Jakarta.
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At this stage, the component focussed mainly on getting re-use of code by making
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everything avaialable together.
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</p>
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<p>
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All classes were placed in one package except the comparators, which had their own subpackage.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Collections 2.0</b> started the process of growth. The Bag interface was added with
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various implementations. Also added were additional collections implementations.
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</p>
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<p>
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All classes were placed in one package except the comparators, which had their own subpackage.
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</p>
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<b>Collections 2.1</b> increased the growth again. The Buffer interface was added, unifying
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various previous implementations. Numerous decorators were added as inner classes that
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behave like the unmodifiable or synchronized JDK decorators.
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</p>
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As the size of the component increased, the iterators were broken out into their own subpackage.
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Thus there were now three packages, main, comparator and iterator.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Collections 3.0</b> represents a re-birth of collections after an 18 month absence.
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Many, many classes had been added to CVS but not released including primitive and
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event-generating classes. In order to control the size of the collections distribution,
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these became two new projects - primitives and events.
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</p>
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<p>
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New interfaces BidiMap, MapIterator, ResettableIterator and KeyValue were added.
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Also added were many new implementations of existing collections, especially Maps.
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</p>
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As more decorators were added the decision was taken to create a new subpackage for
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the decorators (no more inner classes). However, it became clear that whether a class was
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a decorator or not was not the most important division in finding a collection.
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As a result of this, and the general ongoing growth in the component, a full subpackage
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layout was chosen - one subpackage for each principal collections interface.
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</p>
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<p>
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Essentially the 3.0 release represents the result of changing from a 'dumping ground'
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of re-used collections to a component <b>designed</b> for the purpose.
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Of course, backwards compatability has been retained during all transitions using deprecation.
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</p>
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</section>
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</body>
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