Java Arrays: Copying, String Representations, and Collections. how-to. Sep 7, 2009 14 mins. Software Development. Since the introduction of the Java Collections Framework with JDK 1.2, I have used ...

In Java an array is a way of storing multiple items of the same type. ... (which is not possible), we create a new array with the new size and copy the old values into it.

Java supports arrays. Each element occupies the same number of bytes, and the exact number depends on the type of the element’s data item. Furthermore, all elements share the same type.

This post shows readers how to create an array in Java. Including: Array Lists, multidimensional arrays, maps, and more.