Generics in Java
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Generics are a facility of generic programming that were added to the Java programming language in 2004 within version J2SE 5.0. They were designed to extend Java's type system to allow "a type or method to operate on objects of various types while providing compile-time type safety".[1] The aspect compile-time type safety was not fully achieved, since it was shown in 2016 that it is not guaranteed in all cases.[2][3]
The Java collections framework supports generics to specify the type of objects stored in a collection instance.
In 1998, Gilad Bracha, Martin Odersky, David Stoutamire and Philip Wadler created Generic Java, an extension to the Java language to support generic types.[4] Generic Java was incorporated in Java with the addition of wildcards.