An introduction to using generics in Java
I recently worked on a few benchmarks for a database and while coding it used the power of generics to write as little code as possible. In the benchmark, I had two different DAO classes and corresponding Domain Objects that were identical, with the exception of the ID field. I could write everything twice, but there is no fun in that. Instead, I wrote generic classes that accepted the ID as a type parameter. Generics is one of the most...
