Summary

Section 21.1 Introduction

• Generic methods enable you to specify, with one method declaration, a set of related methods.

• Generic classes and interfaces enable you to specify sets of related types.

Section 21.2 Motivation for Generic Methods

• Overloaded methods are often used to perform similar operations on different types of data.

• When the compiler encounters a method call, it attempts to locate a method declaration with a name and parameters that are compatible with the argument types in the method call.