[jira] Commented: (COLLECTIONS-110) Support parametized classes with commons.collections.

["Donal Murtagh (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Donal Murtagh commented on COLLECTIONS-110:
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I think one person's dislike of generics is not a sufficiently good reason for rejecting this request. Although many/most people feel that the Java implementation of generics is not ideal, on balance, I believe that most people feel it's better than no generics at all. For example, I don't know of any projects that are using Java 1.5+ but don't actually use generics.

Anyway, it seems like this issue is dead, but in case it is resurrected, I would emphatically support a generic version of this library even if it is not 100% backward compatible, or uses different package names so that it can co-exists with a non-generic version,

> Support parametized classes with commons.collections.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COLLECTIONS-110
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-110
>             Project: Commons Collections
>          Issue Type: Wish
>         Environment: Operating System: other
> Platform: Other
>            Reporter: Colbert Philippe
>            Assignee: Stephen Kestle
>             Fix For: Generics
>
>         Attachments: collections.patch, Jakarta Collections-generic.tar.gz
>
>
> It's time to create a parallel version of commons.collections to support 
> parametized classes of each container class and abstract class.  It's not that 
> hard.  There is a 23 PDF document on Sun Java website describing in detail how 
> it should be done and what to watch out for.
> I already converted a few classes from commons.collection privately for my own 
> needs.  Once you get the hang of it, it's a rather quick process.
> I am even willing to volunteer my time to do some more but I need the 
> collaboration of some of the original programmers to watch over things.

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