error in overriding generic collections in Java

Question

When I try to override a method that takes a List, I get the following compile error.

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Answer 1

The error message is pretty clear: it has the same erasure, but the types don't match, so it's not considered an override. A List is not a List; it can't treat it as either an override (which would require the types to match exactly) nor an overload (which would require the erasures to be different).