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From: Josip Almasi <joe@vrspace.org>
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Subject: Re: where's your Vector, victor
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 12:45:41 +0200
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On 05/30/2014 10:11 AM, bob smith wrote:
> I read that the Vector class is obsolete.
>
> Can someone tell me in a nutshell why this is so?

Same as with Hashtable.
It's all synchronized, = slow.
And to make things worse, returned iterators are not synchronized:)
So, either pick some unsynchroized from java.util, or go to 
java.util.concurrent.

Regards...