how can I implement Comparable more than once?

Question

I\'m upgrading some code to Java 5 and am clearly not understanding something with Generics. I have other classes which implement Comparable once, which I\'ve been able to i

Answer 1

Generics don't exist after bytecode has been compiled.

Restrictions from this: You can't implement / extend two or more interfaces / classes that would be same without the generic parameter and are different with the generic parameter.

What you could do if you really really want type safety is:

interface Foo> extends Comparable
interface Bar> extends Comparable
abstract class BarDescription> implements Bar
class FooBar extends BarDescription implements Foo