+1 Regards JB
On 02/01/2018 07:54 PM, Kenneth Knowles wrote: > Hi all, > > Luke, Thomas, and I had some in-person discussions about the use of Java 8 > futures and Guava futures in the portability support code. I wanted to bring > our > thoughts to the dev list for feedback. > > As background: > > - Java 5+ "Future" lacks the main purpose of future, which is async chaining. > - Guava introduced ListenableFuture to do real future-oriented programming > - Java 8 added CompletionStage which is more-or-less the expected interface > > It is still debatable whether Java got it right [1]. But since it is > standardized, doesn't need to be shaded, etc, it is worth trying to just use > it > carefully in the right ways. So we thought to propose that we migrate most > uses > of Guava futures to Java 8 futures. > > What do you think? Have we missed an important problem that would make this a > deal-breaker? > > Kenn > > [1] > e.g. > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38744943/listenablefuture-vs-completablefuture#comment72041244_39250452 > and such discussions are likely to occur whenever you bring it up with someone > who cares a lot about futures :-) -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré jbono...@apache.org http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com
