Generics not so bad

I've been working Java 5 the past 6 months and while there's a lot about generics that make me cringe, they are not that bad. "What?!", you exclaim. The 433 pages of FAQ outlining all of the fringe cases and the single variable names do make me want to pull my hair out. But, the 433 pages outline mostly things that you should never do anyway. I have found that generics make bad design and poor programming harder. This is a good thing. Generics become painful when you try to have lists of lists of lists of lists. It forces you though pain to refactor to objects.

I've also noticed that Hibernate forces you in the same ways. Everytime I do something complicated in Hibernate, I have found it's a pain. And everytime there was an easier and more elegant approach that would not only appease Hibernate, but make my design better.