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Java Java Data Structures Exploring the Java Collection Framework Meet the JCF

Posted by Ricardo Sala
Ricardo Sala
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Understanding Generics

Hey guys! As always, thank you in advance for your help!

I am triying to understand exactly what generics are used for.

As I understood, is just to avoid having other types of objects being the parameter of a method that is not ready to handle them, right?

Apart from that, is there anything else? Am I missing something here? (I think I am!)

A couple of simple examples would really help here :)

Wolfgang Warneke
Wolfgang Warneke
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Wolfgang Warneke
Wolfgang Warneke
10,845 Points

This YouTube video helped me understand it a little better myself

EDIT: for thinking of <> as 'of' then in this example Glass<Juice> & Glass<Water> would be 'glass of juice' and 'glass of water' respectively

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sankalp yadav
sankalp yadav
2,101 Points
sankalp yadav
sankalp yadav
2,101 Points

Just undergo this for 15 minutes only http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/generics-in-java/

thank me later.