Comments on: Backwards Compatibility and Mustang Regression Challenge http://www.subbu.org/blog/2006/02/backwards-compatibility-and-mustang-regression-challenge HTTP, REST and some Cycling Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:18:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: upskirt http://www.subbu.org/blog/2006/02/backwards-compatibility-and-mustang-regression-challenge/comment-page-1#comment-94 upskirt Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:18:25 +0000 http://wp.subbu.org/2006/02/backwards-compatibility-and-mustang-regression-challenge/#comment-94 With that required that today was at my men s just <a href="http://kenbradillones.forumcab.com" rel="nofollow">http://kenbradillones.forumcab.com</a> >skirt flipping up not. With that required that today was at my men s just http://kenbradillones.forumcab.com >skirt flipping up not.

]]> By: Ben http://www.subbu.org/blog/2006/02/backwards-compatibility-and-mustang-regression-challenge/comment-page-1#comment-93 Ben Mon, 06 Feb 2006 01:47:15 +0000 http://wp.subbu.org/2006/02/backwards-compatibility-and-mustang-regression-challenge/#comment-93 Theyve done bloody well. If all you can complain about is mouse wheel constants then you are whinging. Theyve done bloody well. If all you can complain about is mouse wheel constants then you are whinging.

]]> By: Dalibor Topic http://www.subbu.org/blog/2006/02/backwards-compatibility-and-mustang-regression-challenge/comment-page-1#comment-92 Dalibor Topic Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:59:16 +0000 http://wp.subbu.org/2006/02/backwards-compatibility-and-mustang-regression-challenge/#comment-92 <p>Actually, Sun has broken both binary and soure compatibility in the J2SE APIs in the past, among other things by changing values of constants, and adding methods to interfaces. </p> <p>Two examples: JDBC updates added new methods to interfaces, which broke existing code. And thanks to the 'design' of the handling of AWT Mouse events, once wheeled mice became popular, MouseEvent.MOUSE_LAST constant had to be modified, which in turn has fascinating side effects on code interacting with code that disagrees on the value of the constant. In Java, such contants are inlined into class files, so changing constants is not a very clever thing to do if one cares about backwards compatibility.</p> <p> cheers, dalibor topic</p> Actually, Sun has broken both binary and soure compatibility in the J2SE APIs in the past, among other things by changing values of constants, and adding methods to interfaces.

Two examples: JDBC updates added new methods to interfaces, which broke existing code. And thanks to the ‘design’ of the handling of AWT Mouse events, once wheeled mice became popular, MouseEvent.MOUSE_LAST constant had to be modified, which in turn has fascinating side effects on code interacting with code that disagrees on the value of the constant. In Java, such contants are inlined into class files, so changing constants is not a very clever thing to do if one cares about backwards compatibility.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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