title: Generic type and performance
body: <p>I'm wondering if using generic types through out the program will have any (significant)degrading performance effect on the application. I use a lot of collection objects(lists, sets, maps) and to give better flexibility to the application(this application has to be integrated into other application) I used only generic types instead of parameterizing them. Is this a common practice or does anyone have a suggestion/advice? Will there be any significant performance degrade?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,</p>