public class ArrayList<E> extends AbstractList<E> implements List<E>, RandomAccess, Cloneable, java.io.Serializable
从ArrayList<E>可以看出它是支持泛型的，它继承自AbstractList，实现了List、RandomAccess、Cloneable、java.io.Serializable接口。
AbstractList提供了List接口的默认实现（个别方法为抽象方法）。
List接口定义了列表必须实现的方法。
RandomAccess是一个标记接口，接口内没有定义任何内容。
实现了Cloneable接口的类，可以调用Object.clone方法返回该对象的浅拷贝。
通过实现 java.io.Serializable 接口以启用其序列化功能。未实现此接口的类将无法使其任何状态序列化或反序列化。序列化接口没有方法或字段，仅用于标识可序列化的语义。
ArrayList的属性
private transient Object[] elementData; private int size;
/**
* Constructs an empty list with the specified initial capacity.
*/
public ArrayList(int initialCapacity) {
super();
if (initialCapacity < 0)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal Capacity: "+
initialCapacity);
this.elementData = new Object[initialCapacity];
}
/**
* Constructs an empty list with an initial capacity of ten.
*/
public ArrayList() {
this(10);
}
/**
* Constructs a list containing the elements of the specified
* collection, in the order they are returned by the collection‘s
* iterator.
*/
public ArrayList(Collection<? extends E> c) {
elementData = c.toArray();
size = elementData.length;
// c.toArray might (incorrectly) not return Object[] (see 6260652)
if (elementData.getClass() != Object[].class)
elementData = Arrays.copyOf(elementData, size, Object[].class);
}
public boolean add(E e) {
ensureCapacityInternal(size + 1); // Increments modCount!!
elementData[size++] = e;
return true;
}
而ensureCapacityInternal方法的具体实现为:
private void ensureExplicitCapacity(int minCapacity) {
modCount++;
// overflow-conscious code
if (minCapacity - elementData.length > 0)
grow(minCapacity);
}
protected transient int modCount = 0;
public void trimToSize() {
modCount++;
if (size < elementData.length) {
elementData = Arrays.copyOf(elementData, size);
}
}
private void grow(int minCapacity) {
// overflow-conscious code
int oldCapacity = elementData.length;
int newCapacity = oldCapacity + (oldCapacity >> 1);
if (newCapacity - minCapacity < 0)
newCapacity = minCapacity;
if (newCapacity - MAX_ARRAY_SIZE > 0)
newCapacity = hugeCapacity(minCapacity);
// minCapacity is usually close to size, so this is a win:
elementData = Arrays.copyOf(elementData, newCapacity);
}
public void clear() {
modCount++;
// Let gc do its work
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
elementData[i] = null;
size = 0;
}
clear的时候并没有修改elementData的长度（好不容易申请、拓展来的，凭什么释放，留着搞不好还有用呢。这使得确定不再修改list内容之后最好调用trimToSize来释放掉一些空间），只是将所有元素置为null，size设置为0。
5. clone()
返回此 ArrayList 实例的浅表副本。（不复制这些元素本身。）
public Object clone() {
try {
ArrayList<E> v = (ArrayList<E>) super.clone();
v.elementData = Arrays.copyOf(elementData, size);
v.modCount = 0;
return v;
} catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
// this shouldn‘t happen, since we are Cloneable
throw new InternalError();
}
}
调用父类的clone方法返回一个对象的副本，将返回对象的elementData数组的内容赋值为原对象elementData数组的内容，将副本的modCount设置为0。
最后讲下Arrays.copyOf(Object[] original, int newLength)方法的实现：
public static <T,U> T[] copyOf(U[] original, int newLength, Class<? extends T[]> newType) {
T[] copy = ((Object)newType == (Object)Object[].class)
? (T[]) new Object[newLength]
: (T[]) Array.newInstance(newType.getComponentType(), newLength);
System.arraycopy(original, 0, copy, 0,
Math.min(original.length, newLength));
return copy;
}
原文：http://www.cnblogs.com/mywy/p/5200363.html