[Isolate-interest] Isolate: Generics and autoboxing considered harmful

[Miles Sabin]

Laurent Daynes wrote,
> To be fair with Bill, there are a few JDK 1.5 features that are used:
> - Enum  (IsolateStatus.ExitReason, IsolateStatus.State)
> - varargs  (e.g., Isolate.start, LinkMessage.newCompositeMessage...)
> - Generic signature (open and tryOpen)

The uses of varags are as straightforward to handle as our uses of 
generics, again by reference to the JLS.

The enums probably do need to have a canonical translation specified, 
because there's more than one way to do it. On the face of it, the J2ME 
folks are best placed to define this.

Cheers,


Miles