Re: Japitools 1.5 support tough design issue

[Stuart Ballard]

On 9/7/05, Jeroen Frijters <address@hidden> wrote:
> Depends on what you mean by "Java" <g>. The JVM (outside of reflection
> support) has absolutely no knowledge of generics, so as far as the JIT
> and EE are concerned both are identical.

That was why I phrased my question as "any distinction at all" - I
know that different bits of the Java world have different levels of
understanding of generics :)

> > In other words, will there be any difference in bytecode between:
> > class MyList implements List
> > and
> > class MyList implements List<Object>
> 
> The <Object> part is a separate attribute in the class file, but that
> attribute is only used for reflection and by Java compilers.

Hmm, sounds like Japitools should recognize that distinction, then.
Especially if it makes a difference to the compiler.

Out of interest, exactly what difference in behavior would you see in
the compiler and/or reflection based on those two different
declarations of MyList?

Stuart.

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