Raw Types

• The virtual machine works with raw types, not with generic classes
• The raw type of a generic type is obtained by erasing the type variables
• For example, generic class Pair<T, S> turns into the following raw class:

  public class Pair
  {
     public Pair(Object firstElement, Object secondElement)
     {
        first = firstElement;
        second = secondElement;
     }
     public Object getFirst() { return first; }
     public Object getSecond() { return second; }
  
     private Object first;
     private Object second;
  }