Sean Landis wrote: > Mark had asked me to start a new thread, but since you asked, Bob... > > Yes, essentially generifying would be it. We should not to have to > cast Object instances these days. There appear to be some places where > direct generifying might not work w/o significant change, but I > haven't done a full analysis. > > There's an adoption aspect to this, at least where I work. The local > culture is zealous about type safety and generally looks down upon > open source that hasn't yet moved to 1.5. > > I confess that I am a bit taken aback now by open source software that > hasn't taken advantage of 1.5 features. I can't know for sure, but I > suspect it is one more barrier for some people. >
It might well be a barrier but I'm aware of a number of substantial jini-users (and potential ones) that aren't on 1.5 in production as yet. Who should we favour? > Sean > > On 5/22/07, Bob Scheifler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sean Landis wrote: >> > Moving the interfaces. utilities, and services to 1.5 is very >> > important to me >> >> Do you mean generifying the public APIs, or something else? >> >> - Bob >> >
