Hi, I'm interessted in the RFE "6179357: Request interface javax.swing.tree.TreeModel to have a generic type for nodes". Is there already someone working on this issue? If not I would like to help there.
I want to address following issues: - add generics support to the Swing framework - provide support for new language features like varargs - provide better support for the collection framework - optimize code where reasonable Do you think this is a good idea? How probable will such a change make its way to the "official" jdk? I sent the signed SCA to Sun. So what would be the next steps? I want my progress to be visible by the public. So what is the best strategy? Work at openjdk.org? Work at SwingLabs? Start a new project at java.net? Should I work on a branch of openjdk? Or should I copy the current revision to a new repository? What is the easiest/ best way to get the source back to openjdk? Is a JSR needed for such a change? Note: the suggested changes should be backwards compatible (eg. thanks to the "raw type feature" of generics), as far as I can see up to now. (The only exception is of course reflection, which can always break if you change an API). Thanks for your help. -Florian
