[jdom-interest] type safety

Joe Bowbeer joe.bowbeer at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 11:28:03 PST 2004


How could JDOM be enhanced to use generics?  Is there a statement
somewhere that describes the kind of changes you envision?

Filippo Carone <f.carone at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've already read some threads about the use of 'templates'
> introduced in Java1.5 and the line adopted by the jdom team on the
> subject. It seems to me jdom will not make use of generics any time
> soon (or maybe never). Without starting another thread about the
> (un)importance of type safety at compile time, I would only know if
> jdom has scheduled or not the use of generics.
> 
> cheers,
> fc


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