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 ...

Universal generics would allow Java type variables to range over primitive and reference types, making it easier to extend or reuse code across different types.

Generics can solve many more problems than collections. Use generics to write code once and reuse it more easily.

Java generics: comparability and so on Nebob Jul 28, 2005 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

Apache Collections supports generics, so that's not a reason to choose one over the other. If the collections you need are available in it, I'd probably lean towards Guava, though.