CHAPTER 54 — Vectors and Enumerations

It is very common for a program to manipulate data that is kept in a list. You have already seen how this is done using arrays. Arrays are a fundamental feature of Java and most programming languages. But because lists are so useful, the Java Development Kit includes the Vector class, which works much like an array but has additional methods and features.

Like an array, a Vector contains elements that are accessed using an integer index. However, unlike an array, the size of a Vector will expand if needed as items are added to it.

Chapter Topics:

• Review of fixed-length arrays.
• The Vector class.
• Vector constructors.
• capacity and size.
• addElement(), setElementAt(), insertElementAt()
• removeElementAt(), firstElement(), lastElement()

String[] list = new String[5];