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 ...

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. In this first article in a two-part series, I ...

/** * Instantiate my collections with empty versions using Collections fields. * This will result in javac compiler warnings stating "warning: [unchecked] * unchecked ...