On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > How about doing a search for usages in all the jars on maven central? > > IMHO it really helps drive the discussions deprecation if we have some > empirical data. > > Paul. If memory serves, Joe Darcy and the Project Coin expert group performed research on a large body of Java code to judge the impact/risk of some PC changes - it's mentioned, for example, in this document http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/ProjectCoin/ProjectCoin-Documentation-v0.83.html (search for "corpus"). Perhaps Joe or one of the people involved in Project Coin could say whether there is any existing infrastructure to perform further ad-hoc searches on the corpus. Patrick PS - It would be great if this were standard practice in these discussions - perhaps someone can sponsor a summer of code project to set it up. Doesn't seem like rocket science...
