Suggestions for Java Generics Semantics in Java Version 7.0 _ Found The Solutions In A Blog (original) (raw)

Jonathan Gibbons Jonathan.Gibbons at Sun.COM
Fri Jun 12 13:27:50 PDT 2009

Jaisimha,

There are no plans to implement reification in JDK 7, nor is there any
likelihood or possibility of this being changed.

-- Jonathan Gibbons.

On Jun 12, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Jaisimha Narahari wrote:

Hi Maurizio,

Thanks for those comments in my post. However, I Found The Descriptions of the Technical Solutions for both of my suggestions in the following blog which might also interest you: http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html Just for the record , actually, if you LOOK ONLY AT THE TWO SUGGESTIONS that I have made in the earlier posts, reproduced here:

From Java Version 7.0, going forward: (1) "Deprecate" Raw Types (2) Remove Backward Compatibility provision and therefore convert "Erasure" to "Reification" for Generic Types, the consequence of which will render the above two rules for the usage of Generic Types unnecessary, making all types provided by the language behave uniformly, most especially without violating OOP principles in what is essentially an OOP Language. what I meant is that if these two changes can be made to Java 7, which implies also Runtime support from the JVM, in addition to changes in javac, then Java would be robust, without requiring special treatment of Generic Types. By suggestion (2) above, Reification of Generic Types implies carrying over the Type info of Type Parameters to the Runtime - possible only with support both from the JVM and javac. Thanks again for your comments, but the blog at the above given URL summed up the answer for me. It would be very worthwhile for Sun to try and implement one of the Two Solutions given in the blog at the above URL.

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