[mdr-users] Re: JDK 1.5 and JMI

> I know this would be useful. But it is not possible (and it would break
> the JMI 1.0 compliance).
> Martin

When you say it's not possible, you mean there's a technical barrier?
If so, what is it?  The difficulty of byte-code generation?

In other words, if someone brave forked the MDR codebase and didn't care
about JMI compliance, would there be anything stopping them from
implementing this feature?

> John V. Sichi wrote:
> 
>> I notice in the generated classes that there is support for generics,
>> but it's commented out:
>>
>> public java.util.List/*<net.sf.farrago.cwm.core.CwmFeature>*/
>> getFeature();
>>
>> Is there any way to enable this for type-safe use with JDK 1.5?  I
>> suppose JMI doesn't cover it, but it would be a very useful extension.
>>
>> JVS