One of the new features of Java 1.5 are the Generics. They allow us to abstract over types and help us to write type safe code. The generics are in some aspects similar to the templates in C++, but there are also significant differences.

You can learn more about the generics in this tutorial. Also you can have a look at this collection of links about Java 1.5 Generics

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