Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

Brian Goetz, Oracle's Java language architect, has been talking for quite a while about the need for new features in Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to improve its typing system on several ...

TL/DR -- In Java, I'm struggling to understand how to create an object instance of a generic type without first knowing the type. So, before I delve down into this, know that I'm trying to understand ...

Project Coin provides numerous “small language enhancements” as a subset of the new JDK 7 features. I recently blogged on Project Coin‘s switching on Strings and in this post I write about the new ...