Java 5 provides parameterized types

There is one other benefit. get has been changed from:

public Object get(int index)

to:

public E get(int index)

Because of this, we can retrieve a value without having to use a cast:

0810:        Shape tShapeGet0 = tList.get(0); 
0811:        System.out.println(tShapeGet0);
0812:        Shape tShapeGet1 = tList.get(1); 
0813:        System.out.println(tShapeGet1);