On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:06:57 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <aiva...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/JComponent.java line 660: >> >>> 658: /** >>> 659: * Resets the UI property to a value from the current look and >>> feel. >>> 660: * Since the default implementation of this method doesn't do >>> anything, >> >> The reason why this method should be overridden is that the subclasses only >> can implement it properly, and it is not because the current method is empty. >> >> Probably we can move the new text to the @implnote tag? > > Yet specifying that this method is empty implies overridden methods do not > need to call `super.updateUI()`. But probably it might be changed in the future? If for example, we will move some common functionality from the standard subclasses to this method. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2955
