[JS2-874] Refactor Jetspeed API to use generics

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Assignee: David Sean Taylor
• Reporter: Ate Douma
• Created: 03/Jun/08 13:12
• Updated: 16/May/14 02:44
• Resolved: 16/May/14 02:44

Description

With Jetspeed-2.2 now requiring Java5, its time to properly make use of it.
One area where a lot of improvements and simplification can be achieved is refactoring the Jetspeed API and object model interfaces and classes to use/support Java Generics.
This will result in a large reduction of code size as well as proper type checking enforced by Java itself.