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Kyle Adams commented on COLLECTIONS-110:
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I've read through all the comments on this issue, as well as Stephen's [blog
entry on the
topic|http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/generics_and_commons_collections].
I found his last comment rather interesting:
{quote}
Well, a lot of large enterpises are still running JDK1.3 (or even earlier) and
perfectly happy. If you work in a small agile environent you can get a
completely different view of the Java world from the enterprise view.
{quote}
I work for a large enterprise and when Stephen posted that comment in June of
2006, it was very true for us. In the second half of '06, we upgraded all of
our internal web apps from running on WebLogic 7 to WebLogic 9. WebLogic 9
came with JDK 1.5 by default; I'm not even sure it was supported on JDK 1.3.
Consequently all of our web apps have upgraded to Java 5. Our batch processing
apps have also been moving over, due to the performance and multi-threading
improvements in Java 5 & 6.
Consequently I'm just now getting on the generics bandwagon. One of the things
I really appreciate about generics is the improvement in maintainability. I'm
the primary support developer for a large system that was originally developed
by an outsourced, offshored project. Consequently documentation is slim and
the code can get convoluted. Pre-generics, sometimes I had to dig through
several hundred lines of code to figure out what was getting stored in a
Collection. Post-generics, it's explicitly clear what each collection contains.
Chalk me up as a Java 5-ified commons-collections supporter.
> Support parametized classes with commons.collections.
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>
> Key: COLLECTIONS-110
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-110
> Project: Commons Collections
> Issue Type: Wish
> Environment: Operating System: other
> Platform: Other
> Reporter: Colbert Philippe
> Fix For: Generics
>
> Attachments: collections.patch, Jakarta Collections-generic.tar.gz
>
>
> 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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