Introduced in Java 5, generics enhance the type safety of your code and make it easier to read. This helps you avoid runtime errors like the ClassCastException, which happens when you try to cast ...

With the sequenced collections proposal, all of the new methods declared in the new interfaces have default implementations. Sequenced collections would be added to the standard edition of Java.

I always assumed that when Java introduced primitive type boxing and unboxing, JVM level optimizations to address any Java autoboxing related performance issues were implemented as well. I assumed ...