How to call static method from a generic class?

Question

I have a class containing a static create method.

public class TestClass {

 public static  TestClass create() {
    return new TestClass&l         


        

Answer 1

Yeah, that's pretty... unintuitive.

A sidenote from Josh Bloch's presentation of his Effective Java, 2nd Edition about the issue: "God kills a kitten every time you specify an explicit type parameter". I would like to avoid constructs like this but sometimes it cannot be evaded.

The trick is to specify the generic parameter after the . character: TestClass.create().