A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
Add generics support to Swing components like JComboBox and JList:

JComboBox<String> combo = new JComboBox<String>(...);

String str = combo.getSelectedItem();

JUSTIFICATION :
Type safety in getSelectedItem().

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
No cast required for getSelectedItem
ACTUAL -
Does not apply

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CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
casting
Posted Date : 2005-07-29 06:09:55.0

N/A

See also 6248759, about generifying spinner.
Posted Date : 2006-09-06 16:38:29.0

Contribution forum : https://jdk-collaboration.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectForumMessageView?forumID=1463&messageID=13410
Posted Date : 2006-06-08 05:59:09.0

This RFE is similar to the RFE 6179357, which propose to add genericity to all the other GUI components that can be seen as a data collection container, like JTree, JTable, etc ...

As some of you might already know, some time ago I started the swing-generics project to "generify" the Swing framework.

Now my patch to "generify" JList, along with AbstractListModel, DefaultListCellRenderer, DefaultListModel, ListCellRenderer and ListModel, has been commited to the OpenJDK/ Swing repository!

You can learn more about the patch at the project site:
https://swing-generics.dev.java.net/

or my blog:
http://puces-blog.blogspot.com/2009/11/news-swing-generics-openjdk-jlist-patch.html

If you're interested in the future of Swing and this issue, join the discussions in the OpenJDK Swing mailing list:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/swing-dev

Related issues:
Sun: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6823603

OpenJDK: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100029

-Puce