Type Safe Collections?

From: Ken (kk_oop_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: 31 May 2004 05:45:05 -0700

It seems that java collections (other than arrays) are not type safe.
I say this since they hold items of type "object." IOW, the type
checking can't be done at compile time, and at run time it seems you
can't guarantee that a given collection will be used for a particular
data type. Is there a standard approach or pattern used to make a
collection type safe?

Thanks,

Ken

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