> There was an earlier article about efforts to update the JDK codebase to use new features of the language. Ok, Generics aren't _that_ new but some new classes/interfaces in Swing finally got generified in Java 7. > But is there a reason why javax.swing.ListModel was generified, but not its sub-interfaces like ComboBoxModel? > This "type swallowing" actually caused non-fixable compiler errors in Scala, where the scala-swing package can't be built anymore against the Java 7 code base. > The relevant bug ticket in Scala's trac is https://lampsvn.epfl.ch/trac/scala/ticket/3634
> Maybe Oracle has already some bug about it? (Didn't bother to look since Oracle started to make more and more bug reports not visible anymore.) > Are there any ongoing efforts to add Generics to the remaining classes of Swing? Swing seems to be one of the last places where Generics are still missing in a few places ... What I know of it: the use of generics by Swing is a volunteer effort by Florian Brunner and his latest patch to generify ComboBoxModel has not been accepted yet. See the topic [PATCH] 100153: Generics: JComboBox of the swing-dev list (okt-nov 2010). With JDK7 declared feature complete I do wonder what will happen - is it going to ship with only a part of Swing implemented with generics? https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100153 is marked as P3 which seems to be planned to be fixed (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/ Rampdown start: P1-P3 bugs only). https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100029 is the bug for the JList generics. Hope that helps, Walter Laan.
