What is the List class

[Vidhya Ramaswamy]

As we know, List is an interface. So, which class does Arrays.asList() return exactly?

    List stooges = Arrays.asList("Larry", "Moe", "Curly"); 

[Rajasekar Elango]

This blog might help you..

- Rajasekar
[ December 10, 2007: Message edited by: Rajasekar Elango ]

[Bear Bibeault]

It doesn't matter. All you know is that whatever the class is, it implements the List interface.

[Vidhya Ramaswamy]

Thanks Rajasekar, that was helpful.

No wonder, the changes(using set()) made to the List view that is returned from Arrays.asList() is reflected in the original array.

But, if a new ArrayList object if created from Arrays.asList() :

List l = new ArrayList(Arrays.asList(a));    

and changes are made to this(using set()), it is not reflected in the original array.