Implementing Generic Interface in Java

Question

I have a Java generics question I was hoping someone could answer. Consider the following code:

public interface Event{}
public class AddressChanged implemen         


        

Answer 1

AFAIK you cannot do that, because when compiling the source code in Java these will both boil down to handle(Event), making the method ambiguous.

The generic information is not available during runtime in Java, in contrast to C#. That is why there it works as you describe.

You will have to change the method names to make them unique, like handleAddressChanged and handleAddressDiscarded.

This is indeed one of the weak points of Java generics.