Question

My itch to see the Emacs syntax highlighting handle generics more effectively is getting worse and worse with each new release of the Java language. I suspect adding customization support for the language level is a significant piece of programming effort. But it would still be interesting to hear someone knowledgeable expound at a fairly high level on what needs to be done to cc-mode.el and or cc-cmds.el to make this happen. Perhaps there is another solution. Is JDE language level aware?

Answer 1

Quick solution:

M-x c++-mode

Java generics are similar enough to C++ templates to improve the highlighting of generic variable declarations. More information on permanent integration seems to be discussed here:
http://osdir.com/ml/emacs.jdee/2007-07/msg00022.html