what is hashmap

[gabriel]

Could anyone explain to me what HashMap is? how it can be used. The simple syntax for setting it out.
thanks in advance

[brianhks]

A Map is like a dictionary in other languages. You have a key and you lookup a value using that key. Java has two kinds of Map's HashMap and TreeMap. The HashMap uses a hash of the key for lookups whereas the TreeMap uses a binary tree for storing the keys.

HashMap<String, String> myMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
myMap.put("FirstKey", "Bob");
myMap.put("SecondKey", "Sam");
System.out.println(myMap.get("FirstKey"));

This code should print out "Bob"

[sridhar.mudiganti]

hash map is storing the values in the form of key,value pair.and it was not synchronized(means it can act upon many threads).intial capacity of hasmap is 16.and load factor is 0.75.
intial capacity*loadfactor=16*0.75=12
that means after storing the 12 th key vale pair hash map size is doubled.
and it allows duplicate values.
Hash map h=new Hashmap();
(123,"ajay") 1st one is key and followed by value.

[sridhar.mudiganti]

hi to every body i want learn java projct architecture.wat is the architecture nad how to represent to the interviewer.plz help me...............

[qiuweiwei]

please notice memory orde and read orde.

i am chinese,i enlish is very bad. i am soory.

[gabriel]

thanks guys for the explanations