The ability to document a type parameter was added to javadoc long after the libraries were first generified, so "early adopters" (collections framework, thread locals, weak refs) do not have javadoc tags for their type parameters.
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JDK-5017749 (reflect spec) reflection classes may need additional API for generic signatures
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JDK-4830575 (spec) Docs for java.lang and java.lang.ref need to reflect generics
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JDK-4881740 retrofit collection classes to use generics
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