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Mikael OlssonJava Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3441-9_22

22. Generics

Mikael Olsson1 
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Hammarland, Länsi-Suomi, Finland
 

Generics refers to the use of type parameters, which provide a way to define methods, classes, and interfaces that can operate with different data types. The benefits of generics are that they provide compile-time type safety and they eliminate the need for most type conversions.

Generic classes

Generic classes allow class members to use type parameters. Such a class is defined by adding a type parameter section after the class name, which contains a type parameter enclosed between angle brackets. The naming convention for type parameters is that they should consist of a single ...

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