Include Generics in Java but maintain full reflection and debugging
functionality.

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N/A

This feature has been added for Tiger release

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I presume the "full reflection" does NOT refer to reflecting on the
runtime type of a type variable.  While we have some ideas on how to
do that, it would be a major change in direction from our current ideas
and implementation.

The task of adding generics requires coordinated work from a number of
subsystems, notably: a major overhaul of the public APIs of core libraries;
an overhaul of the language specification; JCK test suite development;
product, training and tutorial documents; an overhaul of the J2SE workspace
organization, bootstrap and build process; extensions to the JPDA debugger
interface; an extension of the javadoc API to support generics; and an 
overhaul of the standard doclet, MIF doclet, and other Sun-supplied doclets 
to properly handle code involving generics.

I presume that work is intended to be included in the scope of this RFE.

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2001-12-13

Yes, PLEASE do a major overhaul of the core libraries.  
Note that RFE "Request auto boxing of primitives in Java" 
(bug 4609038) can have a similarly broad impact.  As part 
of the overhaul, it's way past time to whack all the 
deprecated stuff.  (At the very least the JDK 1.0 legacy.)

I strongly encourage Sun to market JDK 1.5 as "Java 3", a 
new slimmer, faster version of Java with more more and less 
less.

> Yes, PLEASE do a major overhaul of the core libraries.

This is not specific enough to be acted upon.