generics & their syntax



I've been reading the java tutorial on the sun website, and I keep
running
across this and cannot quite get a grasp of what I'm seeing.

An example:

public class Stack {
private ArrayList<Object> items;


Is

ArrayList<Object> items;

the same as

Object[] items;

???

.



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