Reports on declarations of Collection variables made by using the collection class as the type, rather than an appropriate interface.
Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>
There are two styles to convert a collection to an array: either using a pre-sized array (like c.toArray(new String[c.size()])) or using an empty array (like c.toArray(new String[0]).
In older Java versions using pre-sized array was recommended, as the reflection call which is necessary to create an array of proper size was quite slow. However since late updates of OpenJDK 6 this call was intrinsified, making the performance of the empty array version the same and sometimes even better, compared to the pre-sized version. Also passing pre-sized array is dangerous for a concurrent or synchronized collection as a data race is possible between the size and toArray call which may result in extra nulls at the end of the array, if the collection was concurrently shrunk during the operation.
Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>
redesign of making members used in around bodies accessible
this design is confiined to the aspect containing the around entirely which
makes for cleaner implementation issues and lets things like super calls
be implemented correctly.