My main complaint about them is that well… they're USELESS unless you're the API designer - and they're anti-modular.
One of the recent security problems in Jdk7 was (I believe) related to a whole bunch of "tooling" methods being added to classes and shipped as part of the JRE. Now - if those methods were all extension methods provided by say tooling-support.jar which was ONLY shipped with the JDK, or with tools and NOT with the JRE - then there would be no way of exploiting them. I was real extension methods, not toys. On 29/10/2012, at 2:47 PM, clay <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a legitimate complaint about the Java 8 virtual defender methods? > That seems like a great enhancement. I haven't heard any objections. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "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.
