Yeah, I noticed that. Unfortunately, it can only be used luni for now, since
the compiler is turning it into an interface class. The sooner we move to
1.5 class files the better; I'm tired of the weird 1.5 source to 1.4 class
file behavior that's basically undefined.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:04 AM
> To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [classlib] Help wanted!
> 
> Nathan Beyer wrote:
> > I've been hacking away at those warnings every chance I get. The 'luni'
> > module is going to be filled warnings until we can begin using
> annotations,
> > specifically the @SuppressWarning, especially the Collections classes.
> 
> Thanks to George [1] you can now use @SuppressWarning.
> 
> [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=416121
> 
> Regards,
> Tim
> 
> > There
> > are a number of cases where unchecked type uses are a requirement
> because of
> > limitations in current APIs, backwards compatability and generic array
> > construction.
> >
> > Here are some of the major pieces that can't be avoided and need
> suppressing
> > annotations:
> > * Cloning - When you clone a generified object you have no choice but to
> do
> > an unchecked cast.
> > * Generic Array Construction - The only thing you can do is T[] =
> (T[])new
> > Object[size]; and suppress the warning.
> >
> > In any case, I'm all for keep this stuff as clean as possible. I have my
> > Eclipse compiler settings cranked to the max in the IDE.
> >
> > -Nathan
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mark Hindess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:49 AM
> >> To: Apache Harmony Dev List
> >> Subject: [classlib] Help wanted!
> >>
> >>
> >> I was looking at building (and testing) with Eclipse + IBM VME.  I
> think
> >> this is really important since ecj has a much cleaner classpath when it
> >> compiles so it helps us find errors quicker.
> >>
> >> The logs come out at over 3MB!  There are lots of warnings about less
> >> than ideal type checking - mostly as a result of our adoption of more
> >> generics.  For example:
> >>
> >>     [javac] 1. WARNING in
> >> /pbuilder/tmp/Harmony.my/modules/accessibility/src/mai
> >> n/java/javax/accessibility/AccessibleRelationSet.java
> >>     [javac]  (at line 44)
> >>     [javac]     relations.add(relation);
> >>     [javac]     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>     [javac] Type safety: The method add(Object) belongs to the raw type
> >> Vector.
> >> References to generic type Vector<E> should be parameterized
> >>     [javac] ----------
> >>     [javac] 2. WARNING in
> >> /pbuilder/tmp/Harmony.my/modules/accessibility/src/mai
> >> n/java/javax/accessibility/AccessibleRelationSet.java
> >>     [javac]  (at line 88)
> >>     [javac]     (AccessibleRelation[])relations.toArray(new
> >> AccessibleRelation[r
> >> elations.size()]);
> >>     [javac]
> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>     [javac] Type safety: The method toArray(Object[]) belongs to the
> raw
> >> type Ve
> >> ctor. References to generic type Vector<E> should be parameterized
> >>
> >> I think we should try to improve these, but there are rather too many
> >> for me to do on my own!  What do others think?  I think we could
> disable
> >> the warnings from Eclipse but I don't think that's really the right
> >> thing to do.
> >>
> >> The distribution of warnings is as follows:
> >>
> >>     4 accessibility
> >>    24 archive
> >>    90 auth
> >>   707 awt
> >>    61 beans
> >>     7 crypto
> >>   128 jndi
> >>   206 luni
> >>    10 luni-kernel
> >>     4 misc
> >>     8 nio
> >>     7 nio_char
> >>    32 prefs
> >>    17 regex
> >>   260 rmi
> >>   568 security
> >>   936 swing
> >>    26 text
> >>    14 x-net
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>  Mark.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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