Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java developers have long desired the ability to quickly initialize contents of a List or Set.

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...

Arrays are initialized similarly to variables of primitive data types; no extra steps are needed. Elements can be accessed directly in arrays using an index, and there are no methods; only the .length ...