Most parameterized types, such as ArrayList<Number> and List<String>, are non-reifiable types. At compile time, non-reifiable types undergo a process called type erasure during which the compiler ...

Varargs is the feature that allows a method to accept variable number of parameters. The JLS (Java Language Specification) calls it a Variable Arity Method; I guess they are called varargs because ...

Varargs methods (Item 53) and generics were both added to the platform in Java 5, so you might expect them to interact gracefully; sadly, they do not. The purpose of varargs is to allow clients to ...

Complete your tour of JDK 5’s language features by exploring autoboxing and unboxing, the enhanced for loop, static imports, varargs, and covariant return types. This article wraps up my three-part ...

This article completes my introduction to new Java language features introduced in Project Coin, the JDK 7 language update. So far I have introduced try-with-resources, switch-on-string, multi-catch, ...