Generic class instantiation. Before Java SE 7, you had to specify the same actual type argument(s) for both a variable’s generic type and the constructor when instantiating a generic class.

Generic types are coming to Java — one of these days. On Tuesday at the JavaOne Conference, Gilad Bracha, computational theologist at Sun Microsystems and specification lead of JSR-014, ...

He called it "an informal sketch" of his proposed Java/JVM enhancements to support generics over primitives and, eventually, value types. In another paper (" State of Value Types "), Goetz, along with ...

Generics not only let you create more flexible classes, they make inheritance more flexible, also. To pick the right inheritance mode when inheriting from a generic, though, you must know what you're ...