What is the concept of erasure in generics in java?
It’s basically the way that generics are implemented in Java via compiler trickery. The compiled generic code actually just uses java.lang.Object wherever you talk about T (or some other type parameter) – and there’s some metadata to tell the compiler that it really is a generic type. When you compile some code against a generic type or method, the compiler works out what you really mean (i.e. what the type argument for T is) and verifies at compile time that you’re doing the right thing, but the emitted code again just talks in terms of java.lang.Object – the compiler generates extra casts where necessary. At execution time, a List
