Last Updated: December 6, 2025
LinkedHashSet is a powerful yet often underappreciated part of Java's Collections Framework. It combines the features of a HashSet and a linked list, giving us a unique data structure that maintains both uniqueness and insertion order.
This means you can have all the benefits of a set—like preventing duplicates—while still being able to iterate through your items in the order they were added.
Let's dive in and explore how this works.