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 ...

Almost every article or lecture about generics touches on collections and shows how to build a Stack<T>. Collections and stack building are an obvious choice, but generics have many other uses.

Suppose I have some classes like this:<BR><BR><I>class Entity<E extends Entity<E>> implements Comparable<E><BR><BR>class Person extends Entity<Person><BR>...int ...

I'm working with a code base that currently uses both collections4 and guava (and some LambdaJ), and I'm thinking of making a strong push towards eliminating one or the other. A bunch of stuff I've ...