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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: effiban on January 15, 2008, 05:27:58 am

Title: Java Generics
Post by: effiban on January 15, 2008, 05:27:58 am

EA 7 does not provide full support for Java generics. There are workarounds, for example in the following link:

http://bedla.czech.googlepages.com/How.to.create.generics.in.EA.pdf

I suggest that a more comprehensive and intuitive solution be implemented for the next release.

Thanks,
Effi

Title: Re: Java Generics
Post by: Martin Terreni on January 15, 2008, 07:31:44 am

I think it is very important if you plan EA to be used for full round trip programing.

Title: Re: Java Generics
Post by: effiban on January 15, 2008, 08:15:44 am

That's right - and even if you only want to import from existing code to a diagram, you would still lose some generics information in the current version.

I would like to point out one more issue as well, which is not Java-specific but relates to templates in general: The template arguments of a class or interface are not shown in the diagram (only template parameters are). This is important information even at the design level, and I suggest it be added to the display as well.

Thanks