Java Collections Framework
This tutorial takes you on an extended tour of the Java Collections Framework. The tutorial starts with a few simple programming examples for beginners and experts alike, to get started with the Collections Framework quickly. The tutorial continues with a discussion of sets and maps, their properties, and how their mathematical definition differs from the Set, Map, and Collection definitions within the Collections Framework. A section on the history of Java Collections Framework clears up some of the confusion around the proliferation of set- and map-like classes. This tutorial includes a thorough presentation of all the interfaces and their implementation classes in the Collections Framework. The tutorial explores the algorithm support for the collections, as well as working with collections in a thread-safe and read-only manner. In addition, the tutorial includes a discussion of using a subset of the Collections Framework with JDK 1.1. The tutorial concludes with an introduction of JGL, a widely used algorithm and data structure library from ObjectSpace that predates the Java Collections Framework.
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VISUAL BASIC REVERSED - A decompiling approach
Frameworks are getting more and more popular today, Visual Basic is one of them. Personally i hate frameworks, and also most reversers do. So, why this tutorial? We can consider both the light and the dark side of the problem: frameworks usually put a lot of code in the compiled programs, so it becomes hard to find the way among all that jungle. But they also use sets of pre-built objects, so theese objects are always the same and can be recognized, helping the reverser to understand the code itself. In a VB PE you have a lot of information inside the exe, so you can easily extract all the information you need about all components of the program.
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