代码:

List<String> duplicatList = new ArrayList<String>();
duplicatList = Arrays.asList("AA","BB","CC","DD","DD","EE","AA","FF");
//above AA and DD are duplicate
Set<String> uniqueList = new HashSet<String>(duplicatList);
duplicatList = new ArrayList<String>(uniqueList); //let GC will doing free memory
System.out.println("Removed Duplicate : "+duplicatList);

注意:肯定会有内存开销。

还有来自Guava的ImmutableSet作为一个选项(这里是文档):

ImmutableSet.copyOf(list);

这样可以解决以下问题:

private List<SomeClass> clearListFromDuplicateFirstName(List<SomeClass> list1) {

     Map<String, SomeClass> cleanMap = new LinkedHashMap<String, SomeClass>();
     for (int i = 0; i < list1.size(); i++) {
         cleanMap.put(list1.get(i).getFirstName(), list1.get(i));
     }
     List<SomeClass> list = new ArrayList<SomeClass>(cleanMap.values());
     return list;
}

你也可以这样做，保持秩序:

// delete duplicates (if any) from 'myArrayList'
myArrayList = new ArrayList<String>(new LinkedHashSet<String>(myArrayList));

时间复杂度:O(n):无设置

private static void removeDup(ArrayList<String> listWithDuplicateElements) {
    System.out.println(" Original Duplicate List :" + listWithDuplicateElements);
    List<String> listWithoutDuplicateElements = new ArrayList<>(listWithDuplicateElements.size());

    listWithDuplicateElements.stream().forEach(str -> {
        if (listWithoutDuplicateElements.indexOf(str) == -1) {
            listWithoutDuplicateElements.add(str);
        }
    });     

    System.out.println(" Without Duplicate List :" + listWithoutDuplicateElements);
}

可能有点夸张，但我喜欢这种孤立的问题。：）

这段代码使用了一个临时Set(用于唯一性检查)，但直接删除原始列表中的元素。由于在ArrayList中删除元素会导致大量的数组复制，因此可以避免使用remove(int)-方法。

public static <T> void removeDuplicates(ArrayList<T> list) {
    int size = list.size();
    int out = 0;
    {
        final Set<T> encountered = new HashSet<T>();
        for (int in = 0; in < size; in++) {
            final T t = list.get(in);
            final boolean first = encountered.add(t);
            if (first) {
                list.set(out++, t);
            }
        }
    }
    while (out < size) {
        list.remove(--size);
    }
}

说到这里，下面是LinkedList的一个版本(好多了!)

public static <T> void removeDuplicates(LinkedList<T> list) {
    final Set<T> encountered = new HashSet<T>();
    for (Iterator<T> iter = list.iterator(); iter.hasNext(); ) {
        final T t = iter.next();
        final boolean first = encountered.add(t);
        if (!first) {
            iter.remove();
        }
    }
}

使用标记界面为List提供统一的解决方案:

public static <T> void removeDuplicates(List<T> list) {
    if (list instanceof RandomAccess) {
        // use first version here
    } else {
        // use other version here
    }
}

编辑:我猜泛型的东西并没有真正增加任何价值在这里。哦。：）