On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:28, Paul Hammant wrote:
> Our three choices again, with Gerhard's too.
>
> (1) Change Component to Object for lookup method
-1 - backwards incompatible
> (2) Create a new method in the same ComponentManager interface
>
> variations : "lookup2", "resolve"
-1 - backwards incompatible
> (3) Clone a set of interfaces & exceptions into a new package, either
> with the same names, or not.
>
> (4) Create a new interface in the existing package
>
> e.g. GenericComponentManager
either of those are backwards compatible so fine.
> PD> If Sun jumped off a cliff would you do it too ?
>
> No, but I think that a "2" suffix is not so objectionable to get around a
> return type issue.
perhaps. I wont veto it but I really dislike it. Consider LogEnabled vs
Loggable2 - which do you think is easier to understand/read. :)
So +1 to doing something backwards compatible in framework4.x
If this aint accepted then we can prototype framework5 relatively fast and
even keep it compatible with framework4.x by putting it in a new package. ie
we could go back to
org.apache.framework
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Cheers,
Pete
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