Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

Universal generics would allow Java type variables to range over primitive and reference types, making it easier to extend or reuse code across different types.

Now Oracle has officially announced Project Valhalla for Java, an experimental OpenJDK project for advancing some of Goetz's (and others') ideas, including a major overhaul of Java's generics, a new ...