Sam Ruby wrote:
>
> Berin Loritsch wrote:
> >
> > public class java.sql.SavePoint {}
> >
> > Sun guards the java.* classes jealously, and I need to know if this
> > is really a solution.
>
> What Sun generally tries to do is to stop people from extending or
> subsetting the full API. What you are describing certainly looks like a
> subset to me.
The only other alternative is to use the filtering/substitution in the
build. What this would do is add a couple directives like this:
@JDBC3_START@
void methodCall() {}
@JDBC3_END@
If JDBC3.0 is installed, the two directives would be replaced with an
empty string "". If JDBC3.0 is not installed, it is replaced with the
C-Style comment delimiters "/*" and "*/" respectively.
I don't like that solution as the code cannot compile by itself, and
leads to abuses in macros that Java so diligently tries to avoid.
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