Java Generics Tutorial
Generics in Java is one of important feature added in Java 5 along with Enum, autoboxing and varargs , to provide compile time type-safety. Generics is also considered to be one of tough concept to understand in Java and somewhat it’s true as well. I have read many articles on generics in Java, some of them are quite good and detailed but I still felt that those are either too much technical or exhaustively detailed, so I thought to write a simple yet informative article on Java generics to give a head start to beginners without bothering there head too much. In this Java generics tutorial I will cover How Generics works in Java, Mysterious wild-cards in Generics and some important points about Generic in Java. I will try explaining generics concept in simple words and simple examples.
By the way I thought about writing on Java Generics when I completed my post on Advanced Example of Enum in Java. Since Enum and Generics are introduced at same time in JDK 5. If you like to read about generics than you can also check my other tutorials on generics e.g. 10 generics interview question in Java and Difference between bounded and unbounded wildcards in Generics.
