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 ...

Certain principles hold for the use of iterators: In general, you should be able to have multiple traversals in progress at the same time; that is, an iterator should allow for the concept of nested ...

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 ...

Almost every article or lecture about generics touches on collections and shows how to build a Stack<T>. Collections and stack building are an obvious choice, but generics have many other uses.

I'm working with a code base that currently uses both collections4 and guava (and some LambdaJ), and I'm thinking of making a strong push towards eliminating one or the other. A bunch of stuff I've ...