/* Java 2, v5.0 (Tiger) New Features by Herbert Schildt ISBN: 0072258543 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2004 */ class Stats { T[] nums; // array of Number or subclass // Pass the constructor a reference to // an array of type Number or subclass. Stats(T[] o) { nums = o; } // Return type double in all cases. double average() { double sum = 0.0; for(int i=0; i < nums.length; i++) sum += nums[i].doubleValue(); return sum / nums.length; } // Determine if two averages are the same. // Notice the use of the wildcard. boolean sameAvg(Stats ob) { if(average() == ob.average()) return true; return false; } } // Demonstrate wildcard. public class WildcardDemo { public static void main(String args[]) { Integer inums[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }; Stats iob = new Stats(inums); double v = iob.average(); System.out.println("iob average is " + v); Double dnums[] = { 1.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.4, 5.5 }; Stats dob = new Stats(dnums); double w = dob.average(); System.out.println("dob average is " + w); Float fnums[] = { 1.0F, 2.0F, 3.0F, 4.0F, 5.0F }; Stats fob = new Stats(fnums); double x = fob.average(); System.out.println("fob average is " + x); // See which arrays have same average. System.out.print("Averages of iob and dob "); if(iob.sameAvg(dob)) System.out.println("are the same."); else System.out.println("differ."); System.out.print("Averages of iob and fob "); if(iob.sameAvg(fob)) System.out.println("are the same."); else System.out.println("differ."); } }