It's actually more than that. If we use Java 5, then we might use methods that were introduced in Java 5 (that has happened to me more than once as the commit logs will attest ^_^)... Generics are a good way to simplify some of our utilities classes though (see all the efforts we put into type safety). I haven't used annotations that much yet to see what they could bring to us... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4060884#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...