[stijn1989]

Hello

I followed a conference about java generics at Devoxx. The person who gave the presentation was a prof. at the university of Leuven, Belgium. He told that you can't create an array of generics. Let me give an example.

T [] names = new T[10];

The new T[10] part gives the error. That's something I don't understand. The T in this piece of code is replaced by the name of the class during the compiling. So this should change to this for example:

String [] names = new String[10];

So during runtime this creates a array holding Strings. I understand that you can't do the follow thing because you don't know the constructor of T.

T obj = new T;

Can someone explain why I can't create a generic array. Thanks!