Hi,

I am using my office-mate's class. My class is subclass of hers. Her
class has a private HashMap.

public abstract Parent   //her class
{
    private Map<String, Object> _map;
   
    public Parent()
    {
        _map = new HashMap(10);     //only with size of 10 !!!
    }

    public void insertState(String tag, double value) {
        _map.put(tag, new Double(value));
    }
    ...
}

public Sub extends Parent //my class
{
    public Sub()
    {
        insertState("ATag", 1.2);
        insertState("BTag", 1.6);
        insertState("CTag", 1.8);
        insertState("DTag", 2.5);
        ...                //I inserted 15 times with different tags and values. My
program works correctly. Every value can be successfully retrieved.

    }

    ...
}

How to explain why I can insert more than 10 tags-values into map and my
program works correctly? Is this possible? Or my program actually does
Not run correctly, just my testing is not rigorous enough?

Thank you.