RE: generics in Wicket

I am completely against degenerifying components. We have build a high abstraction framework with typed components that are reused in several other components and the generics help us to ensure to use the the use of the right component at the right place.
Besides some minor problems with suns generic implementation I think that generic are the most usefull thing for us in Java 5. Type checking at development time hels to speed up development a lot.
things like

     Integer i = (Integer)integerTextField.getModelObject();

always leads to problems at runtime whent the customer suddenly needs a Dobule field insteda of an Integer field.
And over and above this would be another API break.
 
Stefan Lindner