To illustrate how generics are used in the Java Collections Framework, let’s look at some examples. List and ArrayList with generics. In the above example, we already briefly explored a simpler ...

Type erasure in Java generics programming can cause a variety of problems in your code. Fortunately, there are ways to work around them.

For example, if Java infers a type to be a String, it will not assigned that type to an int or a float later on in the code. int x = 10; x = "ten"; // Error: violation of strong typing in Java When ...