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Eclipse Collections is a collections framework for Java with optimized data structures and a rich, functional and fluent API.

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Eclipse Collections is a comprehensive collections library for Java. The library enables productivity and performance by delivering an expressive and efficient set of APIs and types. The iteration protocol was inspired by the Smalltalk collection framework, and the collections are compatible with the Java Collection Framework types.

Eclipse Collections is compatible with Java 8+. Eclipse Collections is a part of the OpenJDK Quality Outreach program, and it is validated for different versions of the OpenJDK.

Why Eclipse Collections?

Productivity
- Supports eager, lazy, serial and parallel iteration patterns
- Rich, functional, and fluent APIs with eager methods available directly on collection types
- Provides List, Set, Bag, Stack, Map, Multimap, BiMap, Interval object container types
- Readable, Mutable, and Immutable interfaces for each collection type with covariant return types
  - Blog: Rich, Lazy, Mutable, Immutable interfaces in Eclipse collections
- Mutable and Immutable Collection Factories
  - Blog series: As a matter of Factory
- Adapters and Utility classes for JCF Types
  - Blog: Iterate over any Iterable in Java
Performance
- Memory Efficient Containers
  - Blog: UnifiedMap: How it works?
  - Blog: UnifiedSet - The Memory Saver
- Optimized Eager, Lazy and Parallel APIs
  - Blog: The unparalleled design of Eclipse Collections
- Primitive Collections for all primitive types
  - Provides List, Set, Bag, Stack, Map, Interval primitive container types
Maturity
- Eclipse Collections has been actively developed and used in financial services applications since 2004
- Eclipse Collections existed for a decade before concise lambda expressions were added in Java 8
  - Blog: My ten-year quest for concise lambda expressions in Java

Learn Eclipse Collections

Blog Series: Getting Started with Eclipse Collections
Blog Series: The missing Java data structures no one ever told you about
Blog: Java has Streams. Do we need third-party collections?
Some Quick Code Examples
Eclipse Collections Katas, a fun way to help you learn idiomatic Eclipse Collections usage.
- Start Here - Pet Kata
- Continue Here - Company Kata
Eclipse Collections Reference Guide and Javadoc
Serializing Eclipse Collections with Jackson
Articles and Blogs
Some OSS projects that use Eclipse Collections
- Neo4J, FINOS Legend, Reladomo, Liftwizard, Exchange Core, Dataframe EC, MapDB, Code Browser, Obevo, BNY Mellon Code Katas, Eclipse Nebula NatTable, Eclipse VIATRA, Jackson Datatypes Collections
- If you work on an open source project that uses Eclipse Collections, let us know!

Eclipse Collections and JDK Compatibility Matrix

EC	JDK 5 - 7	JDK 8	JDK 9 - 10	JDK 11 - 14	JDK 15 - 21
7.x.x	✓	✓
8.x.x		✓
9.x.x		✓	✓	✓
10.x.x		✓	✓	✓
10.4.0		✓	✓	✓	✓
11.x.x		✓	✓	✓	✓
12.x.x				✓	✓

Note: Eclipse Collections 12.x will be compatible with Java 11+. EC 12.0 has not been released as GA yet, but there are a few milestone releases available to test with.

Acquiring Eclipse Collections

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.eclipse.collections</groupId>
  <artifactId>eclipse-collections-api</artifactId>
  <version>11.1.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.eclipse.collections</groupId>
  <artifactId>eclipse-collections</artifactId>
  <version>11.1.0</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

implementation 'org.eclipse.collections:eclipse-collections-api:11.1.0'
implementation 'org.eclipse.collections:eclipse-collections:11.1.0'

OSGi Bundle

Eclipse software repository location: https://download.eclipse.org/collections/11.1.0/repository

How to Contribute

We welcome contributions! We accept contributions via pull requests here in GitHub. Please see How To Contribute to get started.

Additional information

Project Website: https://eclipse.dev/collections
Eclipse PMI: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.collections
StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/eclipse-collections
Mailing lists: https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/collections-dev
Forum: https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=329
Working with GitHub: https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse-collections/wiki/Working-with-GitHub