Assuming we always use a Sun JVM (say, 1.5+), is it always safe to cast a Graphics reference to Graphics2D?
I haven't seen it cause any problems yet and, to my understanding, the Graphics class is legacy code but the Java designers didn't want to change the interfaces for Swing and AWT classes in order to preserver backwards compatibility.
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