18.8. Wildcards in Methods That Accept Type Parameters
In this section, we introduce a powerful generics concept known as wildcards. For this purpose, we will also introduce a new data structure from package java.util. Chapter 19, Collections, discusses the Java Collections Framework, which provides many generic data structures and algorithms that manipulate the elements of those data structures. Perhaps the simplest of these data structures is class ArrayList—a dynamically resizable, array-like data structure. As part of this discussion, you will learn how to create an ArrayList, add elements to it and traverse those elements using an enhanced for statement.
Before we introduce wildcards, let’s consider an example that helps us motivate their ...
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