Is it finally time to remove the sun.io converters?

Ulf Zibis Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de
Mon Jun 13 23:02:17 UTC 2011


As replacement for the 323 classes in original sun.io you could use my wrapper classes:
http://java.net/projects/java-nio-charset-enhanced/sources/svn/show/trunk/src/sun/io/

There remain only 8 classes.

-Ulf


Am 13.06.2011 18:03, schrieb Alan Bateman:
>
> The JDK hasn't used the legacy sun.io converters for many years. They were deprecated a long time 
> ago and were originally due to be pulled out in jdk6. The jdk6 plans were scuppered by at least 
> JDBC driver that insisted on calling into the sun.io.* classes directly. A second attempt in jdk7 
> also failed. Now that jdk8 is open for business then it seems a good time to try again. So if 
> anyone knows of any code that it still using sun.io then now would be a good time to speak up.
>
> -Alan
>
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