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Subject: Re: How associate two HashMaps
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 04:30:18 -0400
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On 08/05/2012 12:24 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Ricardo Nuno<9724@bigfoot.com>  writes:
>> What do I need to associate a value, from one hashMap to a key from a
>> new HashMap
>
>    It is hard to parse this sentence with the comma.
>
>    »To associate a value to a key« is a little bit vague.

My guess is that he wants a bidirectional map. For that you'd need a 
custom class delegating to two internal HashMap instances. Something like

public class BidiMap<K,V> extends AbstractMap<K,V> {
     private Map<K,V> map1, map2;
     private BidiMap<V,K> reversed;

     public BidiMap () {
         map1 = new HashMap<K,V>();
         map2 = new HashMap<K,V>();
         reversed = new BidiMap<K,V>(map2, map1, this);
     }

     private BidiMap (Map<K,V> map1, Map<K,V> map2, BidiMap<V,K> reversed) {
         this.map1 = map1; this.map2 = map2; this.reversed = reversed;
     }

     private BidiMap<V,K> getReversedMap () {
         return reversed;
     }

     /* Map methods go here. View methods delegate to map1. Modifying
        methods operate on both maps, but reverse key and value when
        modifying map2. Also, if a value is already in map2, looks
        it up in map2 to find the corresponding key and removes
        that key from map1 before adding the new mappings to both maps.
     */
}

Changes to the reversed map will be reflected in the original and vice 
versa.

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