javac error: inconvertible types with generics?

Question

There are several other SO questions talking about generics compiling OK w/ Eclipse\'s compiler but not javac (i.e. Java: Generics handled differenlty in Eclipse and javac a

Answer 1

I don't know why it's happening, but a workaround is easy:

@Override public > void postEvent(
    Context context, E code, Object additionalData) 
{
    Object tmp = code;
    if (tmp instanceof LogEvent.Type)
    {
        LogEvent.Type scode = (LogEvent.Type)tmp;
    ...

It's ugly, but it works...