Take your coding to the next level by learning advanced programming with generics. Here's how to use generic methods with type inference, type parameters, and wildcards in your Java programs.

Java generics are the exciting new feature of Java 5 (renamed from J2SE 1.5) due for release shortly. Much controversy surrounds generics. In fact, Sam Pullara suggests that generics are just a ...

Java generic classes are compiled into bytecodes, assuming java.lang.Object for all type parameters (or, alternatively, a more specific class constraint). This is known as "type erasure".