Set
provides an unordered data structure, and duplicate elements are not allowed. Some classes implemented by the Set
interface are java.util.HashSet
, java.util.LinkedHashSet
, and so on. For this recipe, we will use the java.util.HashSet
class, which implements the java.util.Set
interface. The only difference between List
and Set
is that Set
doesn't allow duplicate values. For example, in our previous example, we added the e-mail address with emailaddress3@provider3.com
twice, and hibernate will allow us to do this. But in case of Set
, you cannot add a duplicate value. Let's take a look at how to achieve this.
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