Generics in Java, using wildcards

Question

I have a question about Generics in Java, namely using wildcards. I have an example class GenClass like this:

public class GenClass {

    private E         


        

Answer 1

mmyers has the correct answer, but I just wanted to comment on this part of your question (which sounds like your rationale for wanting to use the wildcard):

I thought that the way I have used the wildcard, makes the reference variable c be of type GenClass, which would accept as parameter any class - on the place of E I would have any class. This is just the declaration of the variable. Then I initialize it with

If you really want to accomplish this, you could do something like without compilation errors:

GenClass