Tree abstract data type without SWING paraphernalia?

[exquisitus]

I want to use a tree ADT (preferably a red black tree) would rather not
have to "roll my own" - but I don't want to import the SWING stuff, I'm
writing a session bean and I don't need the GUI stuff - any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Eric Sosman]

I want to use a tree ADT (preferably a red black tree) would rather not
have to "roll my own" - but I don't want to import the SWING stuff, I'm
writing a session bean and I don't need the GUI stuff - any ideas?

Is there some reason you don't like java.util.TreeMap
and java.util.TreeSet?

 

[exquisitus]

No particular reason (other than the fact that I didn't know they
existed ). I am one of those programmers who like to jump in at the
deep end and get my hands dirty - the downside is that I sometimes miss
the obvious - thanks for pointing it out.

 

[Eric Sosman]

exquisitus wrote:
[top-posting fixed]

No particular reason (other than the fact that I didn't know they
existed ). I am one of those programmers who like to jump in at the
deep end and get my hands dirty - the downside is that I sometimes miss
the obvious - thanks for pointing it out.

One of the first deep places into which you should
jump is the documentation ...

An electrical engineer I once worked alongside would
look at the way we programmers worked, shake his head,
and say "Random punches in random card columns [this was
a while ago ...], then debug." If you don't feel like
demonstrating the truth of his aspersion, RTFM!