This simple example demonstrates how you would have to handle lists in Java. However, it also exemplifies many of the shortcomings that the lack of generics brings.

Then again, I never got over how cracked the Java Generics syntax is, at least at the edges (not for using generic classes, but for making them). Java was supposed to make things simpler ...

Although Java 8 only shipped earlier this year, with Java 9 not due until mid-2016, a first prototype of features expected for Java 10 has appeared, including an overhaul of Java's generics.