[tigershark]

Type erasure is one of the ugliest things in java, on par with the Linq implementation using streams. It's not a pain only if you never write generic code and you are happy with having a lot of duplication. C# implementation is superior by far, and you can easily return newly created objects from a generic method or use an object properly without the need to pass the type of the object as a method parameter in addition of specifying the generic type.