Re: [digester] update Rule classes using deprecated methods?

[robert burrell donkin]

from my reading of the java specification, moving methods upwards in 
the inheritance hierarchy is backwards compatible (in binary terms). 
(hopefully someone will correct me if i've made a mistake.)

it's possible that there are some cases of symantic incompatibility for 
user subclasses (overriding the deprecated methods that will never be 
called if the rule implementations are changed). since the methods have 
been deprecated for a long time now (digester 1.4, i think), for me, 
this isn't such an issue (as it once was) provided that it was strongly 
highlighted in the release documents.

i would be interest to hear what other people think about this one 
(including lurking users).

- robert

On 3 Apr 2004, at 08:06, Simon Kitching wrote:

Hi,

I see that a number of Rule classes in digester are still using the
deprecated versions of the begin/body/end methods.
In a minor-version release (1.5 -> 1.6), are we allowed to change these
classes to use the newer methods?
Thanks,

Simon

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