[news.eclipse.technology.ecp] Re: What's the project status?

[aantonau@xxxxxxxxxx (Alex Antonau)]

Wendell,

I agree, maybe we have used too much generics in the core. But this code 
is internal code. It supposed to be used by runtime developers only. End 
user never should use this code or even know about it. All end user should 
use XML descriptors.

Alex

But 

> Early last week and today I got time to dig into the core plugin and in 
> an effort to understand what you all had done I started a new plugin and 
> started rewriting it.  There are serveral inconsistencies where some 
> interfaces begun with an 'I' and some didn't among other things.  And 
> from having reimplemented nearly half the core plugin I truly question 
> the utility of using generics in the core.  If you review the pdfs @ 
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7202, you can see the almost utility 
> of generics.  Our current code is java 5 so we use java 5 features, but 
> generics really complicates the code more than it solves.  For my team 
> the rule is that generics can be used in our own code internally but no 
> generics are allowed in API classes that end users would see.

> Wb