If none of the existing collections could use it, write a new one! Java 6
FTW!
On Jun 25, 2012 9:10 AM, "Stephen Colebourne" <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote:
> On Java 5/6, I'm in favour of Java 6 at this point. To justify it for
> Sebb, someone needs to check to see if any collections in
> [collections] could implement the new interfaces added in Java 6 -
> NavigableSet, NavigableMap and so on.
>
> Stephen
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> On 24 June 2012 12:25, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 24 June 2012 10:28, Thomas Neidhart <thomas.neidh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I recently started to work more on collections and cleaning up the trunk
> >> to make it a candidate for a release and would like to ask a few
> questions:
> >>
> >> - there is still lots of javadoc missing, moving the source code level
> >> to Java 1.6 would allow the use of @Override in more places (instead
> >> of putting a /** {inheritDoc} */ everywhere)
> >
> > AFAICT Javadoc is automatically inherited for methods that implement
> > an interface.
> > Being able to add @Override to an interface implementation does not
> > gain anything.
> >
> >> this has been discussed for vfs a few weeks ago, and my
> >> understanding was that this proposal was well received, so what do
> >> you think about doing the same for collections?
> >
> > No, we should only require Java 6 if strictly necessary for some new
> > functionality it provides.
> > Javadoc is not a good enough reason.
> >
> >> - unit tests: there are currently two unit tests for certain classes
> >> that are almost similar, e.g. TestListOrderedMap and
> >> TestListOrderedMap2. Does anybody know why this exists?
> >>
> >> also I would like to go to annotation based unit tests like in the
> >> other components and rename the tests to the common style:
> >> ClassNameTest.
> >
> > OK.
> >
> >> - consistency with commons rules. There are several things that are
> >> different to other components atm:
> >>
> >> o authors contained in source files
> >
> > OK, but original authors still need to be creditted e.g. in pom.xml.
> >
> >> o no changes.xml to track changes
> >> o since and version tags are a bit different
> >> o package.html should be package-info.java
> >
> > OK.
> >
> >> and I guess other things too that I have not spotted yet.
> >>
> >>
> >> Are there any objections / suggestions to continue with the cleanup?
> >
> > I object to moving to Java 6 without a compelling reason.
> >
> >> Thomas
> >>
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