Type erasure is a valuable mechanism for backward compatibility, ensuring that libraries using generics can still function with older Java versions. It also has positive implications for ...

June 7, 2001— The lack of generic types in the Java programming language has been a source of controversy for years. All of that is starting to change as JSR-014, “Add Generic Types to the ...

Java generics are less powerful than their C++ counterparts ... Many managed-code developers believe that C++ template headers must contain function definitions, not just declarations, as they get ...

You write a function that executes some *SPECIFIC ... of the loop of what's new and nice in the Java ecosystem. As for Java generics, the standard recommendation used to be this: http ...

Recursion's JGL toolkit remains the industry's only commercially hardened Java toolkit on the market today. Building on Sun's JDK 5.0, the JGL toolkit, release 5.0, now provides STL-like generic ...

I discussed C++ templates last month, and how they differ from the .NET and Java generic programming ... known as "variadic templates". My function gets at least two parameters -- friend1 and friend2 ...