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 ...

"generics over numerical types with efficient maths" is one of the real hard problems with the generics systems in many popular languages (c#/dotnet and java included, though java's type erasure ...

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

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.