Professional .NET 2.0 Generics

13.11. Summary

This chapter provided you with a number of examples of how generic classes, methods, interfaces, and delegates can be used within the J# environment. Through these examples, you should have gotten a clearer picture of the J# generics syntax and general mechanics. The chapter also pointed out some factors you'll want to keep in mind as you're consuming externally defined generic types.

Although the J# language is certainly lagging behind C# and VB in its support for generics, the generic capabilities it does support in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework still represent a significant addition to the language. The ability to simply consume generic types is a big step forward for the language. It should be clear that the mere ability to leverage the built-in BCL containers will bring a greater level of type safety, expressiveness, and performance to your existing J# solutions.