There was an excellent post by Kohsuke today on java.net that talks about how to use the java.lang.reflect.Type class to introspect generics and write code that can handle signatures of List<String> vs. List<Integer> correctly.
I think this answers the question of how javac, jaxb, and other utilities handle generics - even though there is type erasure for backwards compatibility, there is still enough signature in the .class files to get at this info: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2008/12/introspecting_g.html Very, very cool. -=- D. J. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
