Generics in the Java Collections Framework Generics are integrated into Java Collections to provide compile-time type checking and to eliminate the need for explicit type casting.

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. This article explains the concepts behind ...

Why should you use Collections class methods rather than similarly named fields to obtain empty collections? Type safety makes the crucial difference.

Researchers have built proof-of-concept exploits for an unpatched unserialize vulnerability in Apache Commons Collections, a library used in most Java rollouts.