I think we should deprecate without replacement.

There are already plenty Apache 2.0 licensed libraries offering circuit breaker implementations:

https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix
https://github.com/jhalterman/failsafe
https://github.com/resilience4j/resilience4j

Cheers,
Pascal

Am 16.07.2018 um 23:30 schrieb Bruno P. Kinoshita:
What about introducing our own state listener interface? The original
interface from the beans package was used just for convenience because
it already existed. But it would of course be possible to have a simple
functional interface to notify listeners about state changes.
Hmmm, that's an option as well.
Looks like they had the beans interface which we used, then later we had the 
java.util.Observable for a while, and now they are suggesting users to move to 
the beans interface, as one of the alternatives.
As some Java 9 users possibly wouldn't want to import the java.beans module, 
perhaps having this new interface could be an interesting alternative.
I believe we would have to
[ ] decide whether to introduce an interface similar to PropertyListener, or to 
Observable[ ] if the backward compatibility changed, we must deprecate the 
existing classes
[ ] release a new version of lang with this new interface and the updated 
circuit breakers[ ] and either delete the deprecated classes or leave it until 
for some more releases
I wonder what others think about this option?

Cheers
Bruno


       From: Oliver Heger <oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de>
  To: dev@commons.apache.org
  Sent: Tuesday, 17 July 2018 4:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [LANG] Java 9 problems because of dependencies to java.desktop 
(Was: Re: [LANG] Thoughts about Lang 4.0)

Am 16.07.2018 um 13:40 schrieb Bruno P. Kinoshita:
Saw some recent activity around lang 3.8, and remembered about this issue, and 
then looked for this thread.

Gilles' point is really good! Here's the Java 9 docs with the deprecation 
warning, copied below as well 
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/index.html?java/util/Observable.html


"This class and the Observer interface have been deprecated. The event model 
supported by Observer and Observable is quite limited, the order of notifications 
delivered by Observable is unspecified, and state changes are not in one-for-one 
correspondence with notifications. For a richer event model, consider using the 
java.beans package.  For reliable and ordered messaging among threads, consider using one 
of the concurrent data structures in the java.util.concurrent package. For reactive 
streams style programming, see the Flow API."



So I guess the best we can do right now is add the @deprecated annotations, 
with an explanation in the javadocs. And also add a note about it in the 
release notes.

Does that sound like a good plan? Adding a link to this thread in the pull 
request as well.

What about introducing our own state listener interface? The original
interface from the beans package was used just for convenience because
it already existed. But it would of course be possible to have a simple
functional interface to notify listeners about state changes.

Oliver

Cheers
Bruno




________________________________
From: Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org>
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, 11 June 2018 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [LANG] Java 9 problems because of dependencies to java.desktop 
(Was: Re: [LANG] Thoughts about Lang 4.0)



Good spot. I think that means [lang] would have to have its own copy
of the JDK interfaces. or just deprecate the functionality without
replacement.
Stephen

On 10 June 2018 at 22:11, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote:
Hello.

On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 21:34:49 +0200, Oliver Heger wrote:
Hi Bruno,

Am 10.06.2018 um 00:52 schrieb Bruno P. Kinoshita:
Hi all,

There is a patch [1] for LANG-1339 [2] that I would like to merge. The
discussion around this issue can be found in the rest of this e-mail thread.

The patch basically deprecates the existing classes that depend on
java.desktop, and provide alternative implementations. The previous classes
used java.desktop classes for the PropertyChangeListener. And the
alternative ones instead use Java 7's java.util.Observer.

Is it a good idea to use deprecated classes[1] in new code?

Regards,
Gilles

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/util/Observable.html



This will make it easier to provide [lang] as java 9, without requiring
users to include a dependency to java.desktop.
Planning to merge it during the next week if there are no objections
here.

Thanks,
Bruno

agreed. This seems to be the best what we can do.

Oliver


[1] https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/275

[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1339



________________________________From: Benedikt Ritter
<brit...@apache.org>
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, 5 June 2017 10:49 PM
Subject: [LANG] Java 9 problems because of dependencies to java.desktop
(Was: Re: [LANG] Thoughts about Lang 4.0)




Am 25.05.2017 um 18:23 schrieb Oliver Heger
<oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de>:



Am 24.05.2017 um 13:55 schrieb Stephen Colebourne:
On 23 May 2017 at 17:17, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, the
code compiles and both can be on the classpath, but it is a pain to
use, just a different kind of hell.

I don't see what the problem is here.

Library A that depends on lang3 returns a Pair.
Library B that depends on lang4 takes a Pair.
Application cannot pass Pair from A to the B without conversion.

My point is that it is possible to over-worry about jar hell.
Joda-Time removed some methods when it went from v1.x to v2.x, but
didn't change package name or maven co-ordinates. It was far more
important that end-users didn't have two different LocalDate classes
(a problem that couldn't be avoided when moving to Java 8). I've never
seen any feedback about the incompatibility causing jar hell.

The same is true here. It is vital to think properly about which is
the worse choice, not just assume that jar hell must always be
avoided.

I remain completely unconvinced that removing these two problematic
methods justifies the lang4 package name, forcing end-users to have
three copies of the library on the classpath. It should need much,
much more to justify lang4 package name. In fact I've yet to hear
anything else much in this thread that justifies a major release.

I also think that a new major release just to fix this problem would be
overkill and cause clients even more trouble.

Would the following approach work as a compromise:

- [lang] declares an optional dependency to the desktop module.
- All affected classes (AbstractCircuitBreaker and its two sub classes)
are marked as deprecated.
- Copies are created from the original classes with slightly changed
names or in a new package (tbd). These copies use a new change listener
mechanism.

IIUC, the resulting [lang] module can now be used without the dependency
to desktop when the new classes are used. The dependency will only be
needed for the deprecated versions.

Let’s do it like this. Sounds like the right way to me.

Benedikt

Oliver

Stephen


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