Comments on: Some Little Generics Suggestion

By: Brian Cunningham

Brian Cunningham — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:28:53 +0000

I personally have an issue with both Generics AND Annotations in Java: And combined they have the potential to create one hell of a mess.

Nevertheless, you’re solution certainly has merit…but it’s really just a workaround for the fact that type info isn’t reified in Generics under Java. If that were the case you wouldn’t have to go through this at all.

A far better solution would be for Sun (or whomever) to implement reification, thereby giving you the flexibility that Generics were meant to have.

By: dabar

dabar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:55:43 +0000

Guice is a framework. Java is a Language, Generics is a Java Language Feature. I am talking about what we will be able to do in core Java without relying on Guice. Meanwhile I prefer Spring to Guice.

By: Sakuraba

Sakuraba — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:31:09 +0000

Uhum, did you ever had a chance to look at the Guice framework? This provide you that kind of injection facilities. Besides, if you dont understand Generics completely, just have a look at frameworks that use it extensively and successfully at the same time (just like Guice).

By: prashant

prashant — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:40:03 +0000

nice thought…

Thanks
Prashant Jalasutram
http://prashantjalasutram.blogspot.com/

By: DabarObjects - Models and Perspectives » Views and Suggestion to Java Generics

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:29:55 +0000

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By: Octavian Nita

Octavian Nita — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:08:31 +0000

Wow! Nice idea…

I’ve been struggling to understand/make best of the Java Generics feature for some time now and I still have mixed feelings about it (although I tend to think more often that they are a good thing with not so good implementation).

However, what you are describing here may pertain to a ‘more general’ issue, closely related to code generation based on annotations…