On 4/24/16 6:13 AM, Doug Lea wrote:
These days, anyone encountering these is probably hitting them by mistake while using RxJava or other reactive-stream frameworks. In which case, users will normally want to instead use the jdk9 java.util.concurrent.Flow APIs that all reactive-streams frameworks should be compatible/interoperable with in their planned upcoming jdk9-compatible versions. I'm not sure how to state this now in any @Deprecated docs or other Observable and Observer javadocs though.
Ah, good point! I can certainly add a note saying that these old Observer/Observable types have nothing to do with reactive streams, and also add a link to the Flow APIs.
I'll do this in a follow-on bug report: JDK-8155052. s'marks
