Yes, you CAN use it as before. But Eclipse displays a warning about usage of raw type. Though I'm not sure, if this warning makes any sense. The problem (only with Eclipse) is, that you cannot disable this warning without disabling it for other cases, where it does make sense. Unfortunately I cannot remember the exact background story right from my brain. I will definitely think about this a bit more.
Ah ok. No warning in Netbeans and with the compiler though. But I agree that this has to be thought through and maybe tested with some partial changes outside the trunk.