JavaでArrayListコレクションを初期化する方法

/**
  * Constructs an empty list with an initial capacity of ten.
  */
  public ArrayList() {
      this.elementData = DEFAULTCAPACITY_EMPTY_ELEMENTDATA;
  }

/**
  * Shared empty array instance used for default sized empty instances. We
  * distinguish this from EMPTY_ELEMENTDATA to know how much to inflate when
  * first element is added.
  */
 private static final Object[] DEFAULTCAPACITY_EMPTY_ELEMENTDATA = {};

/**
  * Constructs an empty list with the specified initial capacity.
  * @param  initialCapacity  the initial capacity of the list
  * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the specified initial capacity
  *         is negative
  */
  public ArrayList(int initialCapacity) {
     if (initialCapacity > 0) {
         this.elementData = new Object[initialCapacity];
     } else if (initialCapacity == 0) {
         this.elementData = EMPTY_ELEMENTDATA;
     } else {
         throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal Capacity: "+ initialCapacity);
     }
  }

/**
     * Constructs a list containing the elements of the specified
     * collection, in the order they are returned by the collection's
     * iterator.
     *
     * @param c the collection whose elements are to be placed into this list
     * @throws NullPointerException if the specified collection is null
     */
    public ArrayList(Collection<? extends E> c) {
        elementData = c.toArray();
        if ((size = elementData.length) != 0) {
            // c.toArray might (incorrectly) not return Object[] (see 6260652)
            if (elementData.getClass() != Object[].class)
                elementData = Arrays.copyOf(elementData, size, Object[].class);
        } else {
            // replace with empty array.
            this.elementData = EMPTY_ELEMENTDATA;
        }
    }