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Name: ca25432 Date: 12/13/2001
Include Generics in Java but maintain full reflection and debugging
functionality.
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Name: ca25432 Date: 12/13/2001
This feature has been added for Tiger release
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I presume the "full reflection" does NOT refer to reflecting on the
runtime type of a type variable. While we have some ideas on how to
do that, it would be a major change in direction from our current ideas
and implementation.
The task of adding generics requires coordinated work from a number of
subsystems, notably: a major overhaul of the public APIs of core libraries;
an overhaul of the language specification; JCK test suite development;
product, training and tutorial documents; an overhaul of the J2SE workspace
organization, bootstrap and build process; extensions to the JPDA debugger
interface; an extension of the javadoc API to support generics; and an
overhaul of the standard doclet, MIF doclet, and other Sun-supplied doclets
to properly handle code involving generics.
I presume that work is intended to be included in the scope of this RFE.
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