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2.11.06

Java Generics and Collections

By myself and my colleague and friend Maurice Nafalin. It's finally out, after considerable effort over the last year. It's just published, and I was pleased to see the O'Reilly stand at OOPSLA sold out.

"A brilliant exposition of generics. By far the best book on the topic, it provides a crystal clear tutorial that starts with the basics and ends leaving the reader with a deep understanding of both the use and design of generics." -- Gilad Bracha, Java Generics Lead, Sun Microsystems

Thanks for the kind words, Gilad!
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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous25/1/07 10:12 AM

    hello,
    Sridhar here,

    I have a problem in writing a generic method...

    Consider the Case;

    ***********************************

    Class Parent{

    Child child
    primitive datatypes...........

    }

    Clss Child{

    SubChild subChild
    primitive datatypes.......

    }


    Class SubChild{

    primitive datatypes.........

    }


    Class ParentBean{

    ChildBean childBean
    primitive datatypes(same fields as Parent)
    }

    Class ChildBean{

    SubChildBean subChildBean
    primitive datatypes( same fields as Child)
    }

    Class SubChildBean{

    primitive datatypes(same fields as SubChild)
    }



    now the question is that

    I have to write one Generic Method so that, it copies values from ParentBean to Parent
    like
    parent.merge(parentBean)

    in the method definition, i have to take them as object, not an instance of the corresponding entity or the bean

    ********************

    if you find any solution, can you please reply to my personnel Id
    sridharas@tarangtech.com

    Thanks a lot

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