Generics are commonly used in the Java Collections Framework, but they can also be used with code elements such as Class, Comparable, and ThreadLocal. Generics enhance type safety by preventing ...

Take your coding to the next level by learning advanced programming with generics. Here's how to use generic methods with type inference, type parameters, and wildcards in your Java programs.

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 5 introduced a new feature called generics that lets you specify the type of objects in collections.

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 ...

The easiest way to learn the different things you can do with generics is to look at some of the uses of generics in the .NET Framework outside of the collections classes. One of the simplest ...

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. This article explains the concepts behind ...

Apache Collections supports generics, so that's not a reason to choose one over the other. If the collections you need are available in it, I'd probably lean towards Guava, though.