That's what I was afraid of. Presumably the deprecated stuff will be dropped in the next spec?
sean On 11/29/05, Adam Winer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/29/05, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a question regarding the new EL. Does the old EL have to be > > supported still? It seems like a bunch of methods are *deprecated* > > but not removed. That's certainly going to complicate things in the > > interim. > > Sadly, the rules we work under require complete API compatibility. > We can deprecate methods, but we can't remove them. I'd > like nothing more than to kill the old APIs (and make some other > changes, too), but it's just not in the cards. > > The EL side of things isn't actually that bad, since the old APIs > can all be implemented in terms of the new ones in a rather > straightforward fashion. The real ugliness is in supporting the old > and new state manager APIs - now *that* is painful. > > -- Adam >
