On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, David Graham wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:52:52 -0700 > From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Proposal] Migrate to Dependency on commons-resources > > Are there any backwards compatibility problems here? Because the Struts > classes use protected MessageResources members they are exposed to classes > extending the framework. It seems that changing these to Messages objects > would break existing extensions. > Whether it would actually break depends on whether the subclass itself explicitly imported org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources or not. If not (in other words, you just used the "messages" static variable of the base class and called getMessage() on it, then a recompile should be sufficient -- the variable name and method signatures were deliberately designed to be compatible. > Dave Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
