Maintaining APIs is hard. We're maintaining the jOOQ API which is extremely complex. But we are following relatively relaxed rules as far as semantic versioning is concerned. When you read comments by Brian Goetz and others about maintaining backwards-compatibility in the JDK, I can but show a lot of respect for their work. Obviously, we … Continue reading JEP 277 “Enhanced Deprecation” is Nice. But Here’s a Much Better Alternative
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Java 8 Friday: Let’s Deprecate Those Legacy Libs
At Data Geekery, we love Java. And as we're really into jOOQ's fluent API and query DSL, we're absolutely thrilled about what Java 8 will bring to our ecosystem. Java 8 Friday Every Friday, we're showing you a couple of nice new tutorial-style Java 8 features, which take advantage of lambda expressions, extension methods, and … Continue reading Java 8 Friday: Let’s Deprecate Those Legacy Libs
The Lame Side of Java’s Backwards-Compatibility
Java is a very backwards-compatible language. Very as in very very very. It is so backwards compatible, we still have tons of deprecated code that was deprecated in the JDK 1.1. For example, most of the java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar API. Some may argue that it would've been easier to deprecate the classes altogether... But things … Continue reading The Lame Side of Java’s Backwards-Compatibility