looks fine Alan and in line with the other work we have done Best Lance On Oct 10, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> > JEP 162 [1] captures a number of things that we can do in preparation for > future modularization of the platform. One of these items is deprecating the > Java SE APIs that are problematic for our modularization efforts. Thankfully > the list is very short as this is deprecation is in anticipation of really > removing the APIs when a module system comes along. > > The patch proposed here is the first installation to deprecate the LogManager > addPropertyChangeListener and removePropertyChangeListener methods. These > methods are problematic because of the API dependency on > java.beans.PropertyChangeListener (java.beans is toxic because of types in > that package that are tied to Applet, AWT, and Swing). When we eventually get > to remove these methods then we expect the impact will not be too > significant. Mandy Chung has done a static analysis over 20,000 projects to > locate usages of these methods and found only 3 so we have some useful > evidence to demonstrate that they aren't used very often. For now we are just > proposing to deprecate the methods and the proposed patch is here: > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/7192274/webrev/jdk.patch > > Thanks, > Alan. > > [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/162 Lance Andersen| Principal Member of Technical Staff | +1.781.442.2037 Oracle Java Engineering 1 Network Drive Burlington, MA 01803 lance.ander...@oracle.com
