Runtime type information Generic Classes

[marcwentink]

I am reading some information on generic (typed) collections and own
created generic classes in Java 5. I have understood that in the new
typed collections, the 'type' is only a compile time feature, it is
stripped from the collections like ArrayList in the intermediate code.
But if I generate my of generic typed class, is this information
stripped aswell, or is the first only something special for
collections to make them work with Java 4 'Object type' collections?

Marc Wentink

 

[Chris Dollin]

I am reading some information on generic (typed) collections and own
created generic classes in Java 5. I have understood that in the new
typed collections, the 'type' is only a compile time feature, it is
stripped from the collections like ArrayList in the intermediate code.

Yes: `type erasure`.

But if I generate my of generic typed class, is this information
stripped aswell,

Yes.

Is that important to you?

 

[marcwentink]

Is that important to you?

No, not really important, I was just curious.
Thank you for the information.