Recently I found myself writing for loops that use Iterators a little differently. I used to write loops like this: Iterator fooIter = bar.getFoos(); Foo foo; while( fooIter.hasNext() ) { foo = (Foo)fooIter.next(); [...] } And now I've moved to this: for( Iterator fooIter = bar.getFoos().iterator(); fooIter.hasNext(); ) { Foo foo = (Foo)fooIter.next();