How can I concatenate two arrays in Java?

Or with the beloved Guava:

String[] both = ObjectArrays.concat(first, second, String.class);

Also, there are versions for primitive arrays:

• Booleans.concat(first, second)
• Bytes.concat(first, second)
• Chars.concat(first, second)
• Doubles.concat(first, second)
• Shorts.concat(first, second)
• Ints.concat(first, second)
• Longs.concat(first, second)
• Floats.concat(first, second)

Here's an adaptation of silvertab's solution, with generics retrofitted:

static <T> T[] concat(T[] a, T[] b) {
    final int alen = a.length;
    final int blen = b.length;
    final T[] result = (T[]) java.lang.reflect.Array.
            newInstance(a.getClass().getComponentType(), alen + blen);
    System.arraycopy(a, 0, result, 0, alen);
    System.arraycopy(b, 0, result, alen, blen);
    return result;
}

NOTE: See Joachim's answer for a Java 6 solution. Not only does it eliminate the warning; it's also shorter, more efficient and easier to read!

If you'd like to work with ArrayLists in the solution, you can try this:

public final String [] f(final String [] first, final String [] second) {
    // Assuming non-null for brevity.
    final ArrayList<String> resultList = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(first));
    resultList.addAll(new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(second)));
    return resultList.toArray(new String [resultList.size()]);
}