Java generic methods in generics classes

Question

If you create a generic class in Java (the class has generic type parameters), can you use generic methods (the method takes generic type parameters)?

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Answer 1

I've found one reason to fully discard generics (however it's not quite good). Reason is: generics may be bounded. Consider this class:

public static class MyGenericClass {
    public  K doSomething(K k){
        return k;
    }

    public  List makeSingletonList(K k){
        return Collections.singletonList(k);
    }
}

The compiler has to discard generics in doSomething, when you use the class without generics. And I think all generics are discarded to be consistent with this behavior.

makeSingletonList compiles because Java does an unchecked cast from List to List (however compiler displays warning).