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. One key HashMap vs. Hashtable difference is the fact that the ...
Bug 6321873 explains that the hash code returned by System.identityHashCode(Object) is not guaranteed to be unique (it’s a hash code after all). That being stated, there are situations in which the ...
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, my ...