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Stephen Kestle commented on COLLECTIONS-110:
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Information:

commons.sf.net is active.  Since I couldn't get in touch with any one, I 
attempted a project takeover.
They are trying to get to API compatibility with 3.2 ( 
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1502771&forum_id=468212 - 
interestingly, they want to become a jakarta sandbox project...)
They have just moved to subversion on the 12th - I was having problems getting 
access to cvs.

I will at least be cleaning up the getInstance() methods (generically), and 
CollectionUtils so that the type parameters are wider.

Improvements:

There are a few issues I have with the apache project listed here: 
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1513198&forum_id=468212
Also, I wanted the 1.5 version to change Closure, but they said we should 
follow Apache - see 
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1513193&forum_id=468212 and 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jakarta-commons-dev/200606.mbox/browser

Conclusions:

Can we improve upon the sf project with the aim to import rather than 
restarting?
An upgrade to generics should also re-address concepts and unity of the whole 
package.  I think it should be a "new" project strong consideration for the 
current version.  
These discussions should happen on a wiki or a forum.  I shall go link this 
thread to the sf project ( 
http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3781644 )

> [collections] Support parametized classes with commons.collections.
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>
>          Key: COLLECTIONS-110
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-110
>      Project: Commons Collections
>         Type: Bug

>  Environment: Operating System: other
> Platform: Other
>     Reporter: Colbert Philippe

>
> It's time to create a parallel version of commons.collections to support 
> parametized classes of each container class and abstract class.  It's not 
> that 
> hard.  There is a 23 PDF document on Sun Java website describing in detail 
> how 
> it should be done and what to watch out for.
> I already converted a few classes from commons.collection privately for my 
> own 
> needs.  Once you get the hang of it, it's a rather quick process.
> I am even willing to volunteer my time to do some more but I need the 
> collaboration of some of the original programmers to watch over things.

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