Big Java Late Objects
Big Java Late Objects
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781119330455
Author: Horstmann
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 18.3, Problem 11SC
Program Plan Intro

Java Generics:

  • Java generic classes and generic methods allow the programmers to specify, with a single class declaration, a set of related types and with a single method declaration, a set of related methods.
  • Using the concept of generics, user can write a generic method sort for sorting objects array then call this method with String arrays, Integer arrays, Double arrays and more for sorting the elements of the array.
  • The user can create a single generic method and call it with arguments of different types.
  • The compiler handles the methods calls appropriately based on the types of arguments passed to the generic method.

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