Second Edition
by Maurice Naftalin, Philip Wadler
Java Generics and Collections has been the go-to guide to
generics for more than a decade. This second edition covers Java 21,
providing a clear guide to generics from their most common uses to the
strangest corner cases, giving you everything you need to know to use
and write generic APIs effectively. It covers the collections library
thoroughly, so you'll always know how and when to use each collection
for any given task. And it explains stream processing, so you'll know
which model to use and how they interoperate to get the best out of the
platform library.
This indispensable guide covers:
- Fundamentals of generics: type parameters and generic methods
- Subtyping and wildcards
- Generics and reflection
- Design patterns for generics
- Sets, queues, lists, maps, and their implementations
- Concurrent programming and thread safety with collections
- Performance of different collection implementations
- Best practices for using and extending the Java collections framework
- Design philosophy and comparison with other collections libraries
