The role of data types inside of the < > in declarations in Java?

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Published on 2010-06-10T18:20:34Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 18:22 UTC
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To give an example, whats the role of the <String> in the following line of code?

private List<String> item = new ArrayList<String>();

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