Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 34194 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2002 21:33:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 9 Feb 2002 21:33:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 25439 invoked by uid 97); 9 Feb 2002 21:33:04 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 25357 invoked by uid 97); 9 Feb 2002 21:33:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 25274 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2002 21:33:03 -0000 Message-Id: <200202092133.g19LX2R20790@mail004.syd.optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Peter Donald To: "Ant Developers List" Subject: Re: Speaking of deprecation... Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 08:17:20 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <006e01c1b176$6d73d6d0$0100a8c0@jose> In-Reply-To: <006e01c1b176$6d73d6d0$0100a8c0@jose> X-Wisdom-Cookie: . MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 01:31, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > Talking about replication, is it there a way to find out if a method or > class is deprecated by using reflection? Nope - it is available via the byte code. > Could our Introspection code do the same and provide remove the burden from > the code writer? There are several things that could be achieved this way, > for example we could automagically manage using attributes with new > signatures (and not just assume that String versions are inferior. The best way to do it would be to get XDoclet to generate the metainfo and base introspection off the metainfo. -- Cheers, Pete -------------------------------- These aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along. -------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: