Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

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Generics Assertions Effective Java J2EE Blueprints Common interface standards Generics Gilad Bracha, the specification lead and computational theologist for Sun, announced that the generics facility ...

Brian Goetz, Oracle's Java language architect, has been talking for quite a while about the need for new features in Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to improve its typing system on several ...

float update(float value, float minimum, float maximum) { if(value < minimum) value = minimum; else if(value > maximum) value = maximum; return value; } How can I ...

When writing a method, you can introduce as many generic parameters as you like which allows you to define relationships between them. I'd like to have this ability when defining a static member ...