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Interface jdsl.simple.api.SimpleContainer

public interface SimpleContainer
Interface for a generic container.

A container is a collection of elements, each of which is a generic Object. An element can be stored multiple times in a container.

This interface in the "simple" package defines only the basic methods of a container.

Version:
$Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 1998/07/02 21:24:46 $
Author:
Michael T. Goodrich, Mark Handy, Roberto Tamassia
See Also:
RankedSequence, PriorityQueue, Dictionary, Container

Method Index

o isEmpty()
Tests if the container is empty.
o size()
Return the number of elements stored in the container, where each element is counted according to is multiplicity.

Methods

o size 
 public abstract int size()
Return the number of elements stored in the container, where each element is counted according to is multiplicity.

Returns:
number of elements in the container.
o isEmpty 
 public abstract boolean isEmpty()
Tests if the container is empty.

Returns:
true if the container is empty, false otherwise. 
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