What is the difference between the add and offer methods in a Queue in Java?

Question

Take the PriorityQueue for example http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/PriorityQueue.html#offer(E)

Can anyone give me an example of a Queu

Answer 1

I will write the java contract example code for offer method and add method showing how they differ.

BlockingQueue queue = new ArrayBlockingQueue<>(2);
        queue.add("TestQuue1");     
        queue.add("TestQuue2"); 
        queue.add("TestQuue3");  // will throw "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Queue full

BlockingQueue queue = new ArrayBlockingQueue<>(2);
        queue.offer("TestQuue1");       
        queue.offer("TestQuue2");   
        queue.offer("TestQuue3"); // will not throw any exception