Please don’t add a new question to an old post. Fortunately I can split your question into a new
thread.
They are both poor forms. The correct way to do it in Java7 is
In older versions of
Java you would write
The reason is that the declaration does not commit you to using an ArrayList; you could use a LinkedList or other sort of List anywhere. Your outer List could even contain several different List implementations, but they would all contain Integers.
You should only use the constructor argument 5 if you are sure you will be using 5 elements.