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Donal Murtagh commented on COLLECTIONS-110:
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I think one person's dislike of generics is not a sufficiently good reason for
rejecting this request. Although many/most people feel that the Java
implementation of generics is not ideal, on balance, I believe that most people
feel it's better than no generics at all. For example, I don't know of any
projects that are using Java 1.5+ but don't actually use generics.
Anyway, it seems like this issue is dead, but in case it is resurrected, I
would emphatically support a generic version of this library even if it is not
100% backward compatible, or uses different package names so that it can
co-exists with a non-generic version,
> 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
> Assignee: Stephen Kestle
> Fix For: Generics
>
> Attachments: collections.patch, Jakarta Collections-generic.tar.gz
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>
> 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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