Hi, I am slowly going through and preparing Phoenix for another release. This involves cleaning up bits and pieces and making sure everything that is supposed to work, actually works.
Some of the following things are deprecated and have been for a while. I would like to know if anyone is using any of these features and if so tell me so they can be preserved. NOTE: Please send replies to the avalon-phoenix-dev mailing list so that this can be coordinated in one place. Heres the list of changes that I want to implement. If there is no negative responses by next weekend I will go ahead and do it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature: Threads pools accessible from BlockContext Deprecated since: 2001/09/20 ie The check if the following methods are used anywhere in your code. BlockContext.getThreadPool(String) BlockContext.getDefaultThreadPool() ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature: BaseLogger accessible from BlockContext Deprecated since: Sometime before 2001/04/27 ie The check if the following methods are used anywhere in your code. BlockContext.getBaseLogger() ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature: Using elements named "block-listener" in assembly.xml Deprecated since: 2002/01/26 ie the correct element name is <listener/> now so as not to confuse differences between Block and Applicaiton Listeners. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature: Using config elements named"management" to expose services as MBeans Was only Non-deprecated between 2002/01/12 and 2002/01/25 ie the correct element name is <management-access-points/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature: Using Service class Deprecated since: 2001/09/25 Deprecated with no replacement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature: Old .sar packaging format Deprecated since: 2001/10/22 The .sar format previously allowed all blocks to be stored in blocks/*.bar and libraries to be stored in lib/*.zip, lib/*.jar. This has been changed so that all jars/libraries are stored in SAR-INF/lib/*.jar and also allows class files in SAR-INF/classes. The configuration files have also moved into SAR-INF/*.xml ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature: Directly Using LogKit Logger Deprecated since: 2001/10/31 We have been using a Logging facade (in o.a.a.framework.logger.*) for a while now but have had to support the old form of using the LogKit logger directly. Dropping support for non-facade would allow us to remove yet another dependenancy from deployed applications (and allow us to use JDK1.4 Logging where supported). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature: Use old config file name server.xml Deprecated since: 2001/11/10 SAR-INF/server.xml was renamed to SAR-INF/environment.xml because phoenix and this configuration was not specific to servers but to the environment in which the applicaiton executes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Cheers, Peter Donald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
