I don't know that I agree that the other implementations are more "correct"
necessarily.  The bounding logic can (and has been) abstracted out as a
wrapper class.  So, ideally you could bound any buffer using BoundedBuffer.
So, if you wanted to use a FifoBuffer (queue) or a LifoBuffer (stack), you
could bound it by wrapping it with a BoundedBuffer.  Maybe it would be
better called a BoundedBufferDecorator or something.  Isn't this how
object-oriented systems are supposed to be designed, modular?


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 7:47 AM
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: [collections] Collections 3.2/4.0

BoundedBuffer is unreleased, so can be removed.

I want to remove it, as I believe it doesn't hold its
weight. If you want a bounded buffer, our
recommendation is to use BoundedFifoBuffer or
CircularFifoBuffer. These are both optimised
implementations for the fixed size.

Adding BoundedBuffer only serves to draw attention
away from the 'correct' implementations that people
should be using.

Stephen


--- Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/9/06, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > What would make BoundedBuffer more a 4.0 thing as
> opposed to a 3.2 thing?
> > Or were you saying that we should agree on the
> contents for 4.0?
> 
> Removing things from an API happened at major
> version numbers rather
> than minor ones I thought.
> 
> Hen


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