The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Java Generics

The Generics feature of the Java language was intended to bring overall type safety to Java. This session starts at the basics of Generics and looks at its capabilities. It presents some of the under-the-hood details of Generics implementation and then delves into some of the changes to Java libraries for accommodating Generics. Finally, it takes a look at some restrictions and pitfalls we need to be familiar with when it comes to relying on Generics.

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