Java Generics and Collections - Tapa blanda

Java Generics is probably the most important feature added to the Java Language for Java 5.0. Generics not only affect the new code programmers write, but potentially all of their existing code as well. The beauty of generics is that more problems will be caught during development. The downside is their complexity. This book, written by one of the designers of gnerics, is a thorough explanation of how to use generics, and particularly, the effect this facility has on the way programmers use collections.

Generics and collections allow for greater reuse of source code. While the benefits are great, it takes extra effort for developers to generify code. Java Generics and Collections explains why the effort is well worth the gains and teaches Java developers how to use a generic library, how to write a generic library and specify collection types, and how to generify an existing library of legacy code. Readers will find helpful hints and exercises that show them how to avoid the pitfalls of generics and speed up their Java development process.

Maurice Naftalin is Director of Software Development at Morningside Light Ltd., a software consultancy in the United Kingdom. Maurice consults mainly in object-oriented technologies and teaches Java classes part-time at Learning Tree. He has three decades' experience as a programmer, team leader, and commercial trainer.

Philip Wadler is a professor of theoretical computer science at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where his research focuses on functional and logic programming. He co-authored the Generic Java standard that became the basis for generics in Sun's Java 5.0 and also contributed to the XQuery language standard base. Professor Wadler received his Ph.D., in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University and co-wrote "Introduction to Functional Programming" (Prentice-Hall).