Re: jdom 2.0 with generics

Thomas Scheffler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.jdom.general
Organization Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 21.07.2011 15:01, schrieb Noel Grandin:
> Hi
>
> Would there be any interest in doing a JDOM 2.0 targeting java 1.5+, but
> changing return types to use generics?
>
> I'd be happy to produce some patches, they're pretty straightforward.
>
> And I know I'd appreciate cleaning up some of code with better type
> checking.

Hi,

this topic has been around some time now. And the main concern was that 
this change would break backward compatibility. Beside that using 
generics would be great, as JAVA 5 itself is unsupported since 2009 now.

So if current code runs without changes: +1 from me.

regards,

Thomas
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