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Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition
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Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

by Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel
February 2014
Beginner
1248 pages
62h 25m
English
Pearson
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Section 20.6 Generic Classes

• Generic classes provide a means for describing a class in a type-independent manner. We can then instantiate type-specific objects of the generic class.

• A generic class declaration looks like a nongeneric class declaration, except that the class name is followed by a type-parameter section. The type-parameter section of a generic class can have one or more type parameters separated by commas.

• When a generic class is compiled, the compiler performs erasure on the class’s type parameters and replaces them with their upper bounds.

• Type parameters cannot be used in a class’s static declarations.

• When instantiating an object of a generic class, the types specified in angle brackets after the class name are known ...

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