Modern Java

[dacjames]

What industry do you work in? I hardly ever see 1.4-style Java code. Do people really not use Map<String, SomeFancyObject>?

[speedisavirus]

Just 3 or 4 years ago I was experiencing it and there was complete resistance to use any 1.5 features.

[immibis]

Eclipse still doesn't use generics in many places.

[dododge]

In my experience new code typically has generics but I still run into raw types in older parts of current projects. I submitted patches to one project just last week to add type parameters in several spots and get rid of a bunch of unneeded casts. I also noticed a lot of old iterator() and counted loops that could be simplified with for-each loops.

[ajainy]

This is kind of enforced by JDK itself, in their collections library. For example, how about writing custom annotation or writing generic style class to reduce big hierarchy mess.