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Tue, 05/25/2004 - 19:31 — kebernet

Good intro to using the Generics system in JDK1.5+ at JavaPro today.
Short summation: Great feature, FUGLY syntax.
The whole thing really boils down to letting the compiler create Class specific versions of more generic classes without your having to code a wrapper that type checks. IE:
List<? extends Number> ref = new LinkedList<Integer>();
gives you a LinkedList that will only accept Integer class types.