Jörn Kottmann wrote: >> None yet that I know of. Feel free to draft some kind of proposal, and >> post here or perhaps on our wiki. > > If I got it right its possible to just insert generics everywhere in our > code without > breaking any code which does not use generics. > > The java compiler does a source-to-source translation and replaces the > generics > with explicit cast like its done now in our code. After the > source-to-source translation > the code should be the same as now. > > Eclipse has a re-factoring tool which can guess generics but does not > always work correctly. > Someone must dig trough the code and change all the generics in a semi > automatic manner with > the tool. Maybe it will help if all interfaces are converted first. > > I would offer to do this job for the uimaj-core project I already > planned to take a closer look at > the source code, so I can do it together. > > Jörn
Sounds good, but I think that should wait until after our next release. That's a change that will touch most files in the core, and we should do it at the start of a release cycle so we have time to iron out the kinks. --Thilo
