some implementations of old apis are already delegating to the corresponding jsf2 apis. however, there are still even >pre< jsf >1.x< classes in the impl. module.
imo we should think about a special backward compatibility module as an alternative. regards, gerhard http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces 2011/10/5 Scott O'Bryan <[email protected]> > Well just because something is depth aged doesn't mean we can remove it. > It just means that an alternate means is suggested or something may not > work exactly as expected if used. > > A Prime example is ExternalContextUtils. That guy has been around since > JSF 1.1. It contains lots of functionality that wasn't present in later > versions of JSF, but now is. Use of the native objects should be > encouraged, but there is also something to be said about older code being > able to migrate easier to a later release. > > Now I DO agree with removing the JSDoc and possibly the deprecations in the > impl, but I think it's important to keep any deprecations in the API for > backward compatibility. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 5, 2011, at 4:32 AM, Gerhard Petracek <[email protected]> > wrote: > > both - there are just two possibilities: those parts are really deprecated > and we remove them (and refactor the rest) or we can't remove them and the > information (annotation and/or javadoc) isn't correct. > > regards, > gerhard > > <http://www.irian.at>http://www.irian.at > > Your JSF powerhouse - > JSF Consulting, Development and > Courses in English and German > > Professional Support for Apache MyFaces > > > > 2011/10/5 Scott O'Bryan < <[email protected]>[email protected]> > >> Gerhard, by deprivation hints, I'm assuming you mean the javadoc >> deprecations and not the annotations, right? >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 5, 2011, at 3:09 AM, Gerhard Petracek <<[email protected]> >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> hi @ all, >> >> there are still over 400 deprecations (via @Deprecated) and nearly 400 via >> javadoc (not all of them overlap). >> a lot of them are in for a long time and some of them were deprecated even >> before [1]. >> >> however, some parts are still used and can't be removed. >> >> imo we should do a cleanup or remove the deprecation hints. >> >> regards, >> gerhard >> >> [1] >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1229><https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1229> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-1229 >> >> <http://www.irian.at> <http://www.irian.at>http://www.irian.at >> >> Your JSF powerhouse - >> JSF Consulting, Development and >> Courses in English and German >> >> Professional Support for Apache MyFaces >> >> >
