Hi All, FYI: We added a couple of classes in Apache Commons Lang to deal with pairs and triples. This is definitely for the pragmatic programmer...
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang3/tuple/Pair.html https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang3/tuple/ImmutablePair.html https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang3/tuple/MutablePair.html https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang3/tuple/Triple.html https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang3/tuple/ImmutableTriple.html https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang3/tuple/MutableTriple.html Gary On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Hohensee, Paul <hohen...@amazon.com> wrote: > Thanks for the immediate response. > > Having read the thread, I understand the argument against including Pair > in the JDK and personally agree with the sw engineering argument. But, it > got into javafx.util somehow and is now effectively part of the JDK anyway, > so that ship has sailed. Thus, it seemed reasonable me to just copy it from > there into java.util, though there would be a maintenance headache if it > were desired to keep them sync’ed. > > I suppose also that there’s a pov that having it in javafx.util indirectly > encourages JavaFX adoption. ( > > Anyhow, thanks for the explanation. > > Paul > > On 7/13/17, 10:22 AM, "joe darcy" <joe.da...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > See the discussion in thread: > > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2010- > March/003973.html > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2010- > April/thread.html > > In short, no current plans to add java.util.Pair. > > -Joe > > > On 7/13/2017 10:07 AM, Hohensee, Paul wrote: > > See the ancient https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-4947273. > > > > At Amazon, many projects depend on JavaFX to get only a single > class, namely javafx.util.Pair. That means that we must distribute OpenJFX > along with our internal OpenJDK distribution, or split javafx.util.Pair out > into a separate package, both of which we’d like to avoid in the future. > So, are there any plans to add java.util.Pair to JDK10? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paul > > > > > >
