Difference b/w collections!

Would any one tell me difference b/w

HashMap

and

AbstractMap

and

Hashtable

List

and

LinkedList

we usually use them but not exactly know the theoritical difference, also plz tell me what collection is sorted is there any ?

Thanks

Faisal khan

[313 byte] By [faisalloea] at [2007-11-26 17:49:39]
# 1
It's all in the API docs and the tutorial. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/package-summary.html http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/
jverda at 2007-7-9 5:02:07 > top of Java-index,Core,Core APIs...
# 2
oh okthanksi will check it out
faisalloea at 2007-7-9 5:02:07 > top of Java-index,Core,Core APIs...