Really is there not even a flag to make compiler do this? I don't get hit by this because i'm building with ejc but i'm accessing com.sun javafx classes quite frequently.
Tom Von meinem iPhone gesendet Am 03.09.2013 um 20:26 schrieb Richard Bair <richard.b...@oracle.com>: > > On Sep 3, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Richard Bair <richard.b...@oracle.com> wrote: > >>> Wouldn't it be better to allow developers to override methods at their own >>> risk. >> >> There's no such thing. When some big customer overrides methods, we have no >> choice but to support their app for the foreseeable future. Which is why >> deprecated stuff never could be removed from the JDK as well. And a host of >> bugs won't be fixed. When the CEO of a customer with a major hardware >> contract comes knocking -- well, at that time you really wish you had >> designed the API differently. > > (This is a danger we run with the impl_ methods as well, which is why this > must be fixed in Lombard or we're going to get into trouble. This is also why > we hide all com.sun APIs in JavaFX from the javac compiler in 8 and are > closing up the gaps. It really all comes down the shared install, if there > was no such thing, then we wouldn't have to be quite so uptight) >
