philihp.com » Example http://www.philihp.com/blog I do things, and then I tell the internet about them. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:40:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Static Java List Instantiation http://www.philihp.com/blog/2009/static-java-list-instantiation/ http://www.philihp.com/blog/2009/static-java-list-instantiation/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 18:54:03 +0000 philihp http://www.philihp.com/blog/?p=417 List<String> strings = Arrays.asList(foo","bar");]]> I’ve been out of the loop on straight Java programming for a while, so this is probably obvious to a lot of people, and has been for a long time. But on the off chance that I’m not the only other idiot out there, I’ll post this.

The old way of instantiating a List in Java was like this:

List strings = Arrays.asList(new String[]{"foo","bar"});

In Java 5, templates were introduced, so I had to change to doing this:

List<String> strings = Arrays.asList(new String[]{"foo","bar"});

It just occurred to me that with variable-length methods, I can simply call asList like this:

List<String> strings = Arrays.asList("foo","bar");
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