A fellow acquaintance, Yuen Chi, has asked an interesting question - How Generic Shall it Be? He is talking of Java’s Generics introduced in JDK5. I understand that Generics was introduced for the sole purpose of clearer code, allowing compile-time checking of object types in Collections. The compiler now has an opportunity of detecting errors if a misinformed programmer inserts a wrong type into the Collection, instead of having a ClassCastException blowing up in your face at runtime. This is all fine and noble except that I’ve seen pretty hairy codes because of Generics.

Personally, I don’t really get it yet. And since I’m doing quite well at this level of understanding, I wonder if it’s really worth my time to go through a thorough study on Generics.

If you’re a Java programmer, I would like to hear your opinion on this matter. It would be even better if you can share the answer to the 64K MB question - why bother?

Bernie.net.my has just been upgraded to the most recent version of Wordpress. There’s now more AJAX goodness in the Administration menu, automatic plugins upgrades and more. Sticking to tradition, after an upgrade in Wordpress, a new theme was installed. The earlier one was getting a bit long in the tooth. Of course I’ll have to put in Adsense again, but seeing I see little to no traffic to the site, it’s not that urgent.

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