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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:26:12 +0100
From: Martin van den Bemt <mllist@mvdb.net>
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Subject: Re: [logging] Bug 38174 and JCL 1.1
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Hi robert,

See 13.4.8 final Fields and Constants at 
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/binaryComp.doc.html

Short answer : yes and no :)

Mvgr,
Martin

robert burrell donkin wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 19:17 +0100, Boris Unckel wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>Simon Kitching wrote:
>>
>>>>>NB: I'm hoping to knock JCL1.1 into releasable state over the coming
>>>>>weekend and hold a vote on creating the first RC.
>>>>
>>>>Please check to put the patch in bug 38174 into RC. Even if you decide
>>>>against the logic in the new "doLog" methods, it would be nice to have 
>>>>the other cleanup (javadoc, same null behaviour for all classes).
>>>
>>>Please check my comments on that bugzilla entry.
>>>
>>
>>I have read your comments and opinions in the bugzilla entry[1].
>>As I do not want to put so much time in a more or less boring task
>>(improving the JavaDoc and care for doLog single method logic is a lot of
>>copy and correct paste) I have removed anything of the exception behaviour.
>>I have also removed the String.valueOf when the underlying logger accepts
>>objects as message.
>>
>>Every file has single patch. With accident cause I did an format after
>>removing the exception handling - sorry for that, it will cause more diff
>>than is really different.
>>
>>Please consider again to put this into release.
> 
> 
> i'm going through the patches (by hand) now. 
> 
> i notice that a lot of the parameters are now declared final (which is -
> usually - good). i would have expected that this should not effect
> binary compatibility but unfortunately, i can't find anywhere in the JLS
> where this is definitely specified. i'm very reluctant to add any
> changes which risk (at all) binary compatibility issues.
> 
> anyone know of a definitive reference?
> 
> - robert
> 
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