Breadth-first search

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Breadth-first search (BFS) is an algorithm for traversing or searching tree or graph data structures. It starts at the tree root (or some arbitrary node of a graph, sometimes referred to as a ‘search key’), and explores all of the neighbor nodes at the present depth prior to moving on to the nodes at the next depth level.

public void bfs()
{
    // BFS uses Queue data structure
    Queue queue = new LinkedList();
    queue.add(this.rootNode);
    printNode(this.rootNode);
    rootNode.visited = true;
    while(!queue.isEmpty()) {
        Node node = (Node)queue.remove();
        Node child=null;
        while((child=getUnvisitedChildNode(node))!=null) {
            child.visited=true;
            printNode(child);
            queue.add(child);
        }
    }
    // Clear visited property of nodes
    clearNodes();
}