Hi Jörn Yes you're right, the command:
javac -source 1.5 -target jsr14 Does exactly what you suggest Best Olivier > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Jörn Kottmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : vendredi 9 novembre 2007 10:10 > À : uima-dev@incubator.apache.org > Objet : Re: Java 1.5 Generics > > > None yet that I know of. Feel free to draft some kind of proposal, > > and post here or perhaps on our wiki. > > If I got it right its possible to just insert generics > everywhere in our code without breaking any code which does > not use generics. > > The java compiler does a source-to-source translation and > replaces the generics with explicit cast like its done now in > our code. After the source-to- source translation the code > should be the same as now. > > Eclipse has a re-factoring tool which can guess generics but > does not always work correctly. > Someone must dig trough the code and change all the generics > in a semi automatic manner with the tool. Maybe it will help > if all interfaces are converted first. > > I would offer to do this job for the uimaj-core project I > already planned to take a closer look at the source code, so > I can do it together. > > Jörn >
