generics

In this example, we will be studying about generic methods and how to use the same in our programmes. Generic method, as the name suggests, is a method that does not specify the Type of its parameters, per se. Rather, it defines a criteria (or a place holder) by which, the method introduces its own type parameters. We will try ...

The Motivation for Generics The simplest way to think about Java generics is thinking about a sort of a syntactic sugar that might spare you some casting operation: List<Apple> box = ...; Apple apple = box.get(0); The previous code is self-speaking: box is a reference to a List of objects of type Apple. The get method returns an Apple instance ...