[nidget]

Hi,

I’m using Eclipse 3.1.1 with MyEclipse 4.1.0
I’m currently migrating a large project into Java 5.0 and I have a few (actually a lot of, as the project is really large) warnings with type safety because it wasn’t using Generics. Usually, I can fix them, but I have a problem in a specific case:

Some of the classes of this project are EJB interfaces generated by XDoclet. The JDK 5 build is activated in the XDoclet configuration dialog.

I have modified some methods like this one in the source of some CMP entity beans:

public abstract java.util.Collection<AdvanceBean> getAdvanceBean();

It should, i presume, generate this in the local home interface:

public java.util.Collection<AdvanceLocal> getAdvanceBean();

Or, at least, if I have this in the source of the EJB:

public abstract java.util.Collection<Object> getAdvanceBean();

I should get this in the generated interfaces:

public java.util.Collection<Object> getAdvanceBean();

[This is not perfect, but would disable the warnings.]

However, it doesn’t work and it just skips the generics. In all cases, I have this in the generated interfaces and I get a lot of warnings because the type of the collection is not specified:

public java.util.Collection getAdvanceBean();

Can you help me to find a solution?

Regards,
Nidget.

[nidget]

I’ve actually found a solution to eliminate the warnings, but it’s actually more a workaround than a real solution. Where the methods of the EJB interfaces are called, I add the annotation @SuppressWarnings(“unchecked”)
It’s not clean as I have to do it in a lot of places. So, if you have something better, don’t hesitate.

[Greg]

To my knowledge XDoclet will allow the user of java5 generics in your source files but it won’t actually generate interface code with java5 generics. Or at least Xdoclet 1.2.3 will not.

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