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Java 101: The next generation: The essential Java language features tour, Part 1

Java programming with assertions and generics

By Jeff Friesen, JavaWorld.com, 09/19/13

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Execute java GenDemo to run this application. You should observe the following output:

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Resources
  • Download the source code for this article.
  • Read Angelika Langer's Java Generics FAQs for a wealth of information and perspective about generics in the Java language.
  • For students of the Java language and its controversies, Langer's "Und erstanding the closures debate" (JavaWorld, June 2008) compares the three initial proposals for adding closures, or lambda expressions, to the Java language in Java 7.
  • See "Java Reflection: Generics" (Jakob Jenkov, Jenkov.com) for further discussion about reflection with generics and special cases where it is possible to access generics information at runtime.
  • More from Java 101: The next generation:
  • More about the Java Collections Framework on JavaWorld: