In Common term Generic means a common type of things or relating to a class or group of things not specific.
In Java Generics are introduced in 2004 within Java 5.0 features along with Enum, autoboxing and varargs , to provide compile time type-safety.Java Generic methods and generic classes enable programmers to specify, with a single method declaration, a set of related methods or, with a single class declaration, a set of related types, respectively.
What is type-safety?
It is just a check by compiler that correct Type(datatype) is used in correct place and there should not be any ClassCastException.
Read more »In Java Generics are introduced in 2004 within Java 5.0 features along with Enum, autoboxing and varargs , to provide compile time type-safety.Java Generic methods and generic classes enable programmers to specify, with a single method declaration, a set of related methods or, with a single class declaration, a set of related types, respectively.
What is type-safety?
It is just a check by compiler that correct Type(datatype) is used in correct place and there should not be any ClassCastException.
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