Java Generics and Collections: Fundamentals and Recommended Practices

Java Generics and Collections has been the go-to guide to generics for more than a decade. This second edition covers Java 21, providing a clear guide to generics from their most common uses to the strangest corner cases, giving you everything you need to know to use and write generic APIs effectively. It covers the collections library thoroughly, so you'll always know how and when to use each collection for any given task. And it explains stream processing, so you'll know which model to use and how they interoperate to get the best out of the platform library.

This indispensable guide covers:

Fundamentals of generics: type parameters and generic methods

Subtyping and wildcards

Generics and reflection

Design patterns for generics

Sets, queues, lists, maps, and their implementations

Concurrent programming and thread safety with collections

Performance of different collection implementations

Best practices for using and extending the Java collections framework

Design philosophy and comparison with other collections libraries