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 ...

After five years of developer perseverance, generics are finally being added to the Java language. The path to generics has been frustrating and controversial to say the least. At JavaOne's ...

Further, the Java compiler will generate a single specialized type at compile-time that it will then use to instantiate any constructed type.

Often applications that use Java Persistence execute queries that return a collection of objects. Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 5 introduced a new feature called generics that lets you ...