I am completely against degenerifying components. We have build a high
abstraction framework with typed components that are reused in several other
components and the generics help us to ensure to use the the use of the right
component at the right place.
Besides some minor problems with suns generic implementation I think that
generic are the most usefull thing for us in Java 5. Type checking at
development time hels to speed up development a lot.
things like
Integer i = (Integer)integerTextField.getModelObject();
always leads to problems at runtime whent the customer suddenly needs a Dobule
field insteda of an Integer field.
And over and above this would be another API break.
Stefan Lindner
