Ok, I'll admit it... my pride has been wounded. I consider myself a pretty astute patron of search engines, but sometimes one has to admit defeat.

I am trying to find a good tutorial on hashTables. I have read the Sun Api, but for some reason, I can't quite wrap my melon around the concept. Arrays were easy, and so were vectors... they gave "visual " examples, so I ws able to understand how they worked.

I have searched "java hashtables tutorials", "java hashtables reference", " java hashtables", "java hashtables how-to", and even "java hashtables illustrated", but still nothing that seems to make the ole synapsis fire.

Anybody have any references?