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Its an alternative as I'm not fully aware of the design and requirements of your project.

A list will at the end of the day always just be a list, however a map will is a list where you...

You could of course use a map for this.



final Map<String, Carrier> carriers = new HashMap<String, Carrier>();

public void addCarrier() {
carriers.put(carrier.getName(),...

I wrote this little snippet for you.



import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.Element;