No, I don't have any plans to use generics in Plexus. To be really useful, Jakarta Commons-Collections would have to also add this, and I think that's going to take a year or more, if it ever happens.
Also, I'm not really a big fan of generics in Java, mostly because of how it had to be implemented to maintain backwards compatibility. If it had been designed into the language at the outset, it would be a different story.
- Ray A. Conner
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Hi, is there any proposal to change the API to use generics?
No, I don't have any plans to use generics in Plexus. To be really useful, Jakarta Commons-Collections would have to also add this, and I think that's going to take a year or more, if it ever happens.
Also, I'm not really a big fan of generics in Java, mostly because of how it had to be implemented to maintain backwards compatibility. If it had been designed into the language at the outset, it would be a different story.
- Ray A. Conner