It's the excitement of seeing something deprecated actually being deleted! I particularly enjoy reading "deprecated as of JDK 1.1" in the JDK7 api docs :)
On Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:02:06 UTC+2, jddarcy wrote: > > Hello, > > A few quick comments on episode #393 about JDK feature planning. > > Formally, for the JDK we are now using a planning process called "JEP" > (JDK Enhancement Proposal). [1] > > The recently updated JDK 8 feature list [2] is composed of references > to JEPs and one of those features is removing the JDK 5-era apt from > JDK 8. > > As discussed in the podcast, the apt tool and API were non-JCP APIs > shipped in JDK 5 to support annotation processing. The annotation > processing functionality was standardized (and improved!) by JSR 269, > which was included in JDK 6. I've written about the saga of apt going > from deprecated in JDK 7 to planned to be removed from JDK 8 to > actually removed from JDK 8: > > "The passing of apt" > https://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/the_passing_of_apt > > "An apt ending draws nigh" > https://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/apt_ending > > One reason removing apt was called out was because it is outside of > the usual general evolution policy we use for the JDK. [4] Maybe > we'll be able to excise corba one of these years ;-) > > Cheers, > > -Joe > > [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/0 > http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/1 > > [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/features > > [3] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/117 > > [4] > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/OpenJdkDevGuide/OpenJdkDevelopersGuide.v0.777.html#general_evolution_policy > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/WDXIxeFN8R8J. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
