Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

Summary

Section 20.1 Introduction

• Generic methods enable you to specify, with one method declaration, a set of related methods.

• Generic classes and interfaces enable you to specify sets of related types.

Section 20.2 Motivation for Generic Methods

• Overloaded methods are often used to perform similar operations on different types of data.

• When the compiler encounters a method call, it attempts to locate a method declaration with a name and parameters that are compatible with the argument types in the method call.

Section 20.3 Generic Methods: Implementation and Compile-Time Translation

• If the operations performed by several overloaded methods are identical for each argument type, they can be more compactly and conveniently coded using ...