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It looks like a generic class in java cannot extend a regular non-generic class. What is the reason for that? Is there any workaround?
I was mistaken. As ColinD pointed out my problem was actually with exceptions. Can anybody explain why generic exceptions are not allowed in Java?
Because exceptions catching require the jvm to know the exact type of exception at runtime (reification) which is not possible in java because all type parameter information is erased by the compiler