2012/1/24 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Vineet Sinha <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> 1) The concern that the article started with, is that really old code >> does not run anymore. I have experienced this. I would like to It will be >> great to read more on how big of an impact this is. >> > > I find this surprising. I certainly haven't seen it myself, but I also > think that from a theoretical standpoint, Java's backward compatibility is > pretty remarkable. Maybe not as remarkable as Windows', but very good > nevertheless. >
I guess the problem is rare then. For us, we were overriding some of the swing classes, and the somewhere down the road more methods were added to the base class. Getting the code to compile was not too hard - but this was code that was last likely touched over 5 years ago and we did not have the expertise in house. So it just meant more time needed to be spent to resurrect the code. -Vineet -- Founder, Architexa - www.architexa.com Understand & Document Code In Seconds -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
