Java 1.6: Creating an array of List

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Well, generics tutorial give the answer to your question.

The component type of an array object
may not be a type variable or a
parameterized type, unless it is an
(unbounded) wildcard type.You can
declare array types whose element type
is a type variable or a parameterized
type, but not array objects.

This is
annoying, to be sure. This restriction
is necessary to avoid situations like:

// Not really allowed.
List<String>[] lsa = new List<String>[10];
Object o = lsa;
Object[] oa = (Object[]) o;
List<Integer> li = new ArrayList<Integer>();
li.add(new Integer(3));
// Unsound, but passes run time store check
oa[1] = li;

// Run-time error: ClassCastException.
String s = lsa[1].get(0);

If arrays of parameterized type were
allowed, the previous example would
compile without any unchecked
warnings, and yet fail at run-time.
We’ve had type-safety as a primary
design goal of generics.

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