June 8, 2001— As an object-oriented, network-enabled, platform-spanning language smart enough to include primitive data types for efficiency, Java has always been cool. But it just keeps getting ...

Universal generics would allow Java type variables to range over primitive and reference types, making it easier to extend or reuse code across different types. Java would get universal generics under ...

Brian Goetz, Oracle's Java language architect, has been talking for quite a while about the need for new features in Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to improve its typing system on several ...