<AWT Dev> [PATCH] Cleanup AWT peer interfaces

[Roman Kennke]

Also see the webrevs to this patch:

http://kennke.org/~roman/webrev/cleanpeers/webrev/

/Roman

Am Dienstag, den 16.09.2008, 12:11 +0200 schrieb Roman Kennke:
> Sorry, I sent the wrong patch. Here's the correct one.
> 
> /Roman
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 16.09.2008, 11:02 +0200 schrieb Roman Kennke:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The peer interfaces have a lot of duplicate methods, where one is
> > deprecated and 'replaced' by a new one (for example, preferredSize() and
> > getPreferredSize() ). I see that this makes sense for public API
> > _classes_ to maintain backward compatibility, but it does _not_ make
> > sense for interfaces. It only confuses those who have to implement those
> > interfaces (which method should I implement? Which one is called, and
> > which should call which?), and adds no value at all. Also: the new
> > interface methods are not used (i.e. called by AWT) at all. As part of
> > the Caciocavallo project I went through this stuff and removed the
> > duplicates, leaving the new methods in the interfaces and made AWT call
> > the new methods instead. There were also a couple of methods that are
> > never called from AWT (like ComponentPeer.repaint() ), which I also
> > removed (some of such methods are used, but only in the interface
> > implementation, so it is not required to have them in the public
> > interface). What do you think? Should this be merged into main JDK7?
> > 
> > Cheers, Roman
> > 
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