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

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 14.06.2011 10:25, schrieb Alan Bateman:
> Ulf Zibis wrote:
>> 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.
> I think this should be backup, as in a plan B. The JDK documentation has always warned developers 
> not to use sun.* APIs. javac has even emitted warnings since the symbol file mechanism was added 
> (jdk6?). In the case of sun.io then there's been a better solution (java.nio.charsets) since 1.4 
> and so folks have had nearly 9 years to move. They will have at least 10 or more years by the time 
> that jdk8 ships. With modules coming in jdk8 then it seems a good opportunity to move on this.
>

I mentioned this, because (1) in the meantime you could save ~300 classes, (2) must no more maintain 
sun.io if there are new encodings and (3) I did so much effort in those wrappers, so I would like to 
see them living. :-X

But anyway, I would like to see sun.io package removed.

Don't forget weather sun.io package is removed or replaced by my wrapper:
Almost all *Charset classes in sun.nio package* could be made *package private*, so no one can 
access them externally.

- Ulf