Java’s powerful generics has been available to developers for ten years now and is extensively used throughout both core and third party libraries. Unfortunately, it’s not as well understood as it could be. This course is here to help. We’ll both shine a light on the common use cases of generics on classes, methods, or interfaces and also peer into some of the darker corners such as type bounds and wildcards.
Author Name: Richard Warburton
Author Description:
Richard is an empirical technologist and solver of deep-dive technical problems and works independently as a Software Engineer and Trainer. Recently he has written a book on Java 8 Lambdas for O’Reilly and teaching people via java8training.com and Pluralsight. He’s worked as a developer in diverse areas including Statistical Analytics, Static Analysis, Compilers, and Network Protocols. He is a leader in the London Java Community and runs Java Hackdays. Richard is also a known conference speaker,… more

Table of Contents

• The What and Why of Java Generics
  21mins
• Java’s Generic Collections and Friends
  30mins
• Generic Classes and Interfaces
  28mins
• Generics on Methods
  15mins
• Wildcards
  34mins
• Raw Types and Compatibility
  49mins
• Reflection
  25mins
• Advanced Topics
  43mins