Tech Review Software Development: Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Freeware Lists from Tech Support Alert

• https://www.techsupportalert.com/
• Mark uses this site for information on software packages.
• Gizmo's Freeware

How do I Reference another Project?

• Add it as a project under references.

Java - Sorting a Key value pair

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/109383/how-to-sort-a-mapkey-value-on-the-values-in-java
• This is kind of weird in what it does
• You are actually look at the original map to sort elements in the created map

I would like some thing that show how to create a TreeMap with a Comparator.

Java - HashSet

• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/HashSet.html

Java - BidiMap (bidirectional lookup map)

• http://commons.apache.org/collections/api-3.1/org/apache/commons/collections/BidiMap.html

Java - Indexer (returns a BidiMap with an index on each element)

• http://jung.sourceforge.net/doc/api/index.html