JCP Submission to add covariant return types

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What would be involved in getting to gether to submit a formal JCP to enable covariant return types?

AFAIK, the changes are:

1) the language spec
2) the JVM Spec
3) changes to the compiler code
4) changes to the class file verifier in the JVM code

And that should be it. Who wants to organise this?

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My understanding is that the current generics proposal already includes covariant return types.

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Right, and as such, covariant return types are slated to be in the Java 1.5 release.