[jira] Commented: (LANG-336) Finally start using generics.

["Tom Nichols (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tom Nichols commented on LANG-336:
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I agree, generics would be nice.  

I'm not familiar with Jakarta's development policies, but would it be appropriate to create and maintain a branch with generics support, and have two distributions (java 5+ and pre-Java 5)?

> Finally start using generics.
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-336
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-336
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.3
>            Reporter: Hendrik Maryns
>         Attachments: commons-lang-2.3-sources-generic.tar.gz, lang.patch
>
>
> It is obvious that the Jakarta  project is reluctant in starting to use the 'new' (how old is it by now?) generics feature of Java.  Nevertheless some other people would like to see it incorporated in the commons projects.
> I adapted commons Lang to usee generics.  Took me about an afternoon.  Would be nice if something is done with it, except for only me using it in my projects.
> Some stuff will have to be changed to conform to guidelines and stuff.

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