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What is the difference between Collection and Collections in Java?
Collection (singular) is the root interface of the collections hierarchy — List, Set, and Queue all extend it, and it defines the core contract (add, remove, size, iterator). Collections (plural) is a utility class full of static helper methods that operate ON collections — sort(), reverse(), unmodifiableList(), synchronizedList(), and so on.
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