add support for generic component classes #629
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This PR adds support for components inheriting from generic base classes.
The most simple (and probably most important) use case are components with just a single value. In this case you often end up with several components that only differ in the type of the embedded value. With this PR we can now use generic types:
This works especially well with the artemis-odb-contrib AssetManager (and LibGDX):
This also works with more complicated scenarios with various (generic) classes in between, although this might be an unusual use case, see the newly added tests.