ARM API Support

[Joe Darcy]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Joe Darcy:
>
>   
>> Lance Andersen, JDBC spec lead, left the following comment on my blog 
>> regarding JDBC support for ARM/try-with-resources:
>>
>> "The changes to add support for ARM would be part of JDBC 4.1 which we 
>> hope to include in Java SE 7.  If JDBC 4.1 makes it into Java SE 7 we 
>> should be able to include this feature.  We have been discussing this in 
>> the JDBC EG and at this time we do not see any potential gotchas for the 
>> interfaces which support a close() method."
>>
>> http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin_arm_api#comment-1280332609000
>>     
>
> Will you add an AutoCloseable2 interface for JDBC?  Or the
> source-level incompatibility which results from retrofitting to an
> existing interface acceptable in this case?
>   

There are no source compatibility issues with making a class implement 
another interface if no new methods are added.

-Joe