The generic class has the same behavior for all of its possible parametric types. The same generic class can be viewed each time as if it has a different parametric type. For the JVM it doesn’t matter which parametric type we chose to instantiate a generic class with. In all cases, for the JVM it is the same class. Generics implementation in Java is in the compiler level. The following video clips show that.

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