At last a thread I know something about!
Andreas is right. Java's generics were designed to be backward-compatible at
runtime. At compile time, using generics in a non-generic way will issue
compiler warnings that can be ignored.
-- Phil Heller
Author: Ground-Up Java, Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide
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From: Andreas Prlic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >> These are good points. Can we generify interfaces without
> >> breaking them?
>
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> I don;t think that adding generics will break anything, e.g.
>
> old code:
>
> public interface MyTest {
> public Set getFeatures()
> }
>
> then some code that uses this:
>
> public void myFoo(){
>
> MyTest test = new MyTestImpl();
>
> Set features = test.getFeatures();
> }
>
> this call will not break, even if we change the MyTest interface to:
>
> public Set getFeatures()
>
> MyTestImpl will get some warnings (in my eclipse), to ensure the type
> safety, but that is all.
>
> Andreas
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