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 ...

Generics not only let you create more flexible classes, they make inheritance more flexible, also. To pick the right inheritance mode when inheriting from a generic, though, you must know what you're ...