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 ...

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For example, although List and Deque both define an encounter order, their common supertype, Collection, does not. With the sequenced collections proposal, all of the new methods declared in the new ...

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