About time to modernize Java

It's about time to modernize Java.

I'm not talking fancy things like closures or functional programming. I'm talking some of the basic interfaces in commonly used classes.

Exhibit A are the constructors for JTree and JList. These take a Hashtable and a Vector. How long have we had Collections built into Java? So why don't JTree and JList use Map and List?

Exhibit B are classes that still return Enumeration. For example, to get the contents of a ZipFile you get an Enumeration and have to work your way through it by hand. Now Java has the enhanced for-loop, there ought to be methods for returning a Collection directly.

I could go on, but I think you get the point - many of Java's own classes simply haven't been modernized to bring them in line with improvements elsewhere. And I get really irritated having to continue to write crufty old-fashioned code to deal with those deficiencies.