Calculating frequency of each word in a sentence in java

Try this

public class Main
{

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {       
        String text = "the quick brown fox jumps fox fox over the lazy dog brown";
        String[] keys = text.split(" ");
        String[] uniqueKeys;
        int count = 0;
        System.out.println(text);
        uniqueKeys = getUniqueKeys(keys);

        for(String key: uniqueKeys)
        {
            if(null == key)
            {
                break;
            }           
            for(String s : keys)
            {
                if(key.equals(s))
                {
                    count++;
                }               
            }
            System.out.println("Count of ["+key+"] is : "+count);
            count=0;
        }
    }

    private static String[] getUniqueKeys(String[] keys)
    {
        String[] uniqueKeys = new String[keys.length];

        uniqueKeys[0] = keys[0];
        int uniqueKeyIndex = 1;
        boolean keyAlreadyExists = false;

        for(int i=1; i<keys.length ; i++)
        {
            for(int j=0; j<=uniqueKeyIndex; j++)
            {
                if(keys[i].equals(uniqueKeys[j]))
                {
                    keyAlreadyExists = true;
                }
            }           

            if(!keyAlreadyExists)
            {
                uniqueKeys[uniqueKeyIndex] = keys[i];
                uniqueKeyIndex++;               
            }
            keyAlreadyExists = false;
        }       
        return uniqueKeys;
    }
}

Output:

the quick brown fox jumps fox fox over the lazy dog brown
Count of [the] is : 2
Count of [quick] is : 1
Count of [brown] is : 2
Count of [fox] is : 3
Count of [jumps] is : 1
Count of [over] is : 1
Count of [lazy] is : 1
Count of [dog] is : 1

In Java 8, you can write this in two simple lines! In addition you can take advantage of parallel computing.

Here's the most beautiful way to do this:

Stream<String> stream = Stream.of(text.toLowerCase().split("\\W+")).parallel();

Map<String, Long> wordFreq = stream
     .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(String::toString,Collectors.counting()));

import java.util.*;

public class WordCounter {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String s = "this is a this is this a this yes this is a this what it may be i do not care about this";
        String a[] = s.split(" ");
        Map<String, Integer> words = new HashMap<>();
        for (String str : a) {
            if (words.containsKey(str)) {
                words.put(str, 1 + words.get(str));
            } else {
                words.put(str, 1);
            }
        }
        System.out.println(words);
    }
}

Output: {a=3, be=1, may=1, yes=1, this=7, about=1, i=1, is=3, it=1, do=1, not=1, what=1, care=1}

Use a map with word as a key and count as value, somthing like this

    Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
    for (String w : words) {
        Integer n = map.get(w);
        n = (n == null) ? 1 : ++n;
        map.put(w, n);
    }

if you are not allowed to use java.util then you can sort arr using some sorting algoritm and do this

    String[] words = new String[arr.length];
    int[] counts = new int[arr.length];
    words[0] = words[0];
    counts[0] = 1;
    for (int i = 1, j = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
        if (words[j].equals(arr[i])) {
            counts[j]++;
        } else {
            j++;
            words[j] = arr[i];
            counts[j] = 1;
        }
    }

An interesting solution with ConcurrentHashMap since Java 8

    ConcurrentMap<String, Integer> m = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
    m.compute("x", (k, v) -> v == null ? 1 : v + 1);