Would it be possible to call this generic method?

Given the following method of a class which doesn't have type T defined:

public <T> T get(java.lang.String name) { /* compiled code */ }

Would it be possible to invoke this, and how?

Yes. Just call it with an explicit type argument:

 foo.<Integer>get("something")

I'm not terribly fond of how type arguments are expressed in Java, but they're perfectly doable. See the Java Generics Tutorial for another example.

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