TL/DR -- In Java, I'm struggling to understand how to create an object instance of a generic type without first knowing the type. So, before I delve down into this, know that I'm trying to understand ...

This article completes my introduction to new Java language features introduced in Project Coin, the JDK 7 language update. So far I have introduced try-with-resources, switch-on-string, multi-catch, ...

If you create a CustomerRepository that inherits from ReadRepository, you might choose to set the type of your base class: Public Class CustomerRepository Inherits ReadRepository(Of Customer) End ...