Weblog:		Eye of the Tiger - Generics in J2SE 1.5
Subject:		Confused about erasure
Date:		2003-12-03 07:04:56
From:		sam_dalton
You can get the above example to work by declaring your collection thus: ArrayList<String> l = new ArrayList<String>(); This will not allow you to add anything to you collection that is NOT a String (doing so will result in a compile time error).