Java to get generics before Visual Studio

Generics -- defined here as classes and methods that work uniformly on values of different types -- and described here as "parameterized types" -- ignite programmer passions. At last fall's Microsoft Professional Developer Conference, when I asked one .Net corporate developer why he had chosen .Net over Java, he vehemently replied it was because Java had atrocious support for generics. But I wonder just where this feature is in the two respective product pipelines. This story states that due to the delay of Visual Studio 2005 (a.k.a. Whidbey), Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.5, will be shipped with generics first.