Java weird generic return type

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Published on 2010-05-20T19:10:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 19:20 UTC
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Browsing through Guava libraries I saw this weird signature on a readLines method from Files class:

public static <T> T readLines(File file,
                          Charset charset,
                          LineProcessor<T> callback)

I know a little bit about generics in java, but this baffled me.

What does the double T mean here? And why is the first one in angled brackets?

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