Adding Generics to Java: An exercise in frustration. Since the beginning of Java there has been a movement to add generics to the language. After 5 years, JSR-014 hopes to finally do so.

Hey --TL/DR -- In Java, I'm struggling to understand how to create an object instance of a generic type without first knowing the type. So, before I delve down into this, know that I'm trying to ...

When developing Java applications, it is easy to get used to invoking logging on the provided logger via its log level-specific methods. For example, Log4j‘s Logger provides methods such as ...

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 ...