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enumerations at least (Score:2)
At least for an enumeration you can do:
I suspect that, despite how much sense it makes, they didn't make the Iterator interface extend Iterable because it would break compatibility with a ton of custom Iterators people have coded in the years since Java 1.2. Java is extremely wary of doing this, even when doing differently (like with generics) winds up causing people pain for years.
As it is, it's pretty easy to create a wrapper class to do what ferreira suggested above, or to code something similar to the static Collections methods to consume the Iterator and return a List. Of course, if the Iterator is of the infinite variety, you might be in trouble :-)
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Collections.list( enumeration )
Awesome! That is the glue I searched for in vain yesterday. Unfortunately it's too late for this particular project, but you can never have too much glue lying around for future tasks. :)
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