Am Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2004 13:51 schrieb Robert Schuster:
> Hi there,
> in an attempt to fix bug 10799 I saw that the affected class
> (java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport) needs some general cleanup and
> fixing (it was last modified in 1998!). I took the online version
> of the 1.5 API documentation and realized that the 2 constructors
> are now public (were protected) and two new methods have been
> added.
> My question is: Should I stick with strict 1.4 compatibility (no
> public constructors, no new methods) or upgrade everything to be up
> to date?

I would say go ahead but add @specnote tags telling what got changed 
in the public API.

> AFAIK the changes Sun made are binary compatible or am I wrong?

Yes this is binary compatible.


Michael
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