On 19 June 2013 08:08, Peter Levart <peter.lev...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd also like to suggest something. You have made lots of tests that cover > the functionality of new default methods in Map and other collections > interfaces which prove the correctness of behaviour when used with > implementations of those interfaces in JDK. Perhaps It would be wise to > extend those tests to include some JDK-external implementations that are > known to pass basic tests, taken for example from Guava or Apache Commons or > even JDK7. The interactions of default methods with existing methods in > various implementations of collection interfaces could reveal "bugs" that > may be on the part of default methods. I'm sure the maintainers of these > external implementations will do the same, but may be doing that only after > JDK8 release.
This seems like a good idea, as it would help ensure more generally that new JDK versions work with key existing libraries. Stephen
