The change looks good.
Mandy
On 10/10/2012 4:19 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
JEP 162 [1] captures a number of things that we can do in preparation
for future modularization of the platform. One of these items is
deprecating the Java SE APIs that are problematic for our
modularization efforts. Thankfully the list is very short as this is
deprecation is in anticipation of really removing the APIs when a
module system comes along.
The patch proposed here is the first installation to deprecate the
LogManager addPropertyChangeListener and removePropertyChangeListener
methods. These methods are problematic because of the API dependency
on java.beans.PropertyChangeListener (java.beans is toxic because of
types in that package that are tied to Applet, AWT, and Swing). When
we eventually get to remove these methods then we expect the impact
will not be too significant. Mandy Chung has done a static analysis
over 20,000 projects to locate usages of these methods and found only
3 so we have some useful evidence to demonstrate that they aren't used
very often. For now we are just proposing to deprecate the methods and
the proposed patch is here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/7192274/webrev/jdk.patch
Thanks,
Alan.
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/162
