Understanding advanced generics and type erasure in Java enhances your ability to write type-safe and efficient Java code. Let’s recap the most important points of this article.

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 ...

Sealed classes, proposed in JEP 409 and available since Java 17, let developers limit and control how deeply a component's type hierarchy can extend. With sealed classes, a developer can essentially ...

The ability to overload constructors in Java makes your APIs easier to use and easier to maintain in the long term. Cameron McKenzie has been a Java EE software engineer for 20 years. His current ...