On 10 Oct 2012, at 18:11, Mandy Chung <mandy.ch...@oracle.com> wrote:
> The change looks good. +1 -Chris > 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
