Le Fri Nov 07 2014 at 07:57:09, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Le 07/11/14 07:30, Jeff MAURY a écrit :
> > Le Fri Nov 07 2014 at 1:42:43 AM, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com>
> a
> > écrit :
> >
> >> Le 06/11/14 23:15, Jeff MAURY a écrit :
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> upon Emmanuel's request, I reviewed the fix for DIRMINA-994
> >>> (commit f1972fc3de8c4074ff7b60f8c557d3c53013e30b). Here are my
> remarks:
> >>>
> >>>    - the Future framework in MINA2 is not linked in any form to JDK's
> >>>    Future, is there any reason for that ? I've seen that IOFuture in
> >> MINA3
> >>>    extends Future
> >> Java Future were introduced in hava 5. MINA was created with Java 1.4
> >> compatibility as a target.
> >>
> > Can't accpet it, as MINA2 code uses generics.
>
> I'm just stating the fact that when future were introduced, we weren't
> using generic yet, because we wanted to keep the 1.4 compatibility. When
> we decided to switch to Java 5, we added generic, but kept Future.
>
> I'm not saying it was a smart move, this is just what happened. In
> retrospect, that was lazy.
>
> Keep in mind that MINA history is nearly 10 years old...
>
The purpose of my questions was indeed to try to get some historic info as
I'm quite new to MINA

Jeff

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