Is it finally time to remove the sun.io converters? (original) (raw)

Ulf Zibis Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de
Tue Jun 14 10:34:23 UTC 2011

Am 14.06.2011 10:25, schrieb Alan Bateman:

Ulf Zibis wrote:

As replacement for the 323 classes in original sun.io you could use my wrapper classes: http://java.net/projects/java-nio-charset-enhanced/sources/svn/show/trunk/src/sun/io/

There remain only 8 classes. I think this should be backup, as in a plan B. The JDK documentation has always warned developers not to use sun.* APIs. javac has even emitted warnings since the symbol file mechanism was added (jdk6?). In the case of sun.io then there's been a better solution (java.nio.charsets) since 1.4 and so folks have had nearly 9 years to move. They will have at least 10 or more years by the time that jdk8 ships. With modules coming in jdk8 then it seems a good opportunity to move on this.

I mentioned this, because (1) in the meantime you could save ~300 classes, (2) must no more maintain sun.io if there are new encodings and (3) I did so much effort in those wrappers, so I would like to see them living. :-X

But anyway, I would like to see sun.io package removed.

Don't forget weather sun.io package is removed or replaced by my wrapper: Almost all Charset classes in sun.nio package could be made package private, so no one can access them externally.

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