Generics in Java enhance the type safety of your code and make it easier to read. In my last article, I introduced the general concepts of generics and showed examples from the Java Collections ...

He called it "an informal sketch" of his proposed Java/JVM enhancements to support generics over primitives and, eventually, value types. In another paper (" State of Value Types "), Goetz, along with ...

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.