see Map interface for descriptions and examples of IdentityHashMap's methods.
■ A regular HashMap does not allow duplicate key names. If you need to allow for duplicate key names, use an identityHashMap instead.
■ What
identityHashMap does during key comparisons is to use = = (which checks the key's reference) instead of .equals( ) (which checks the
key's content). HashMap uses .equals( ) and that's why you
can't have duplicate key names with it.
■ Except for the duplicate key issue, IdentityHashMap and its methods are the same as HashMap.
■ Duplicate values
are allowed by both classes.