PPT Slide
public interface Set extends Collection
A collection that contains no duplicate elements. More formally, sets contain no pair of elements e1 and e2 such that e1.equals(e2), and at most one null element. As implied by its name, this interface models the mathematical set
The Set interface places additional stipulations, beyond those inherited from the Collection interface, on the contracts of all constructors and on the contracts of the add, equals and hashCode methods. Declarations for other
inherited methods are also included here for convenience. (The specifications accompanying these declarations have been tailored to the Set interface, but they do not contain any additional stipulations.)
The additional stipulation on constructors is, not surprisingly, that all constructors must create a set that contains no duplicate elements (as defined above).
Note: Great care must be exercised if mutable objects are used as set elements. The behavior of a set is not specified
if the value of an object is changed in a manner that affects equals comparisons while the object is an element in the
set. A special case of this prohibition is that it is not permissible for a set to contain itself as an element.