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 ...

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 ...

Hey -- TL/DR -- In Java, I'm struggling to understand how to create an object instance of a generic type without first knowing the type. So, before I delve down into this, know that I'm trying to ...

The project's goals include a major overhaul of Java's generics, a new approach to generic typing, and new support for value types.

List<String> neil = new ArrayList<String>(); //Java 5 generics List<String> neil = new ArrayList<>(); //Java 7 diamond operator The diamond operator copies the generic type defined on the left of an ...