This is no real issue it's just for my interest, I strongly believe there must be a reason for this. It's just that I don't get it :). Maybe someone can help me out here: I catch myself quite often overriding methods which are offered by Seam and look like Object Component.getInstance(Class clazz) with the corresponding generalized implementation <T> T Component.getInstance(Class<T> clazz) Why is it not implemented like that per default?, it would safe quite a few casts I guess... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4022720#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...