8000362: (pack200) Deprecate Packer/Unpacker addPropertyChangeLister and removePropertyChangeListener methods

[Chris Hegarty]

The changes look ok to me.

-Chris.

On 11/10/12 14:40, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> This is a follow-on from yesterday's mail on deprecating the
> LogManager's add/removePropertyChangeListener methods. The other 4
> problematic methods identified in JEP 162 [1] are the same name methods
> on Pack200.Packer and Pack200.Unpacker. The webrev to deprecate these
> methods is here:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8000362/webrev/
>
> As with the LogManager methods, Mandy Chung searched >20000 projects. In
> this case we didn't find any usages of these methods and this gives us
> confidence that these methods are rarely used. We don't propose to
> provide a replacement for these methods but instead just include wording
> to suggest that applications poll the value of the progress property if
> they really need to provide some progress indication.
>
> Kumar is the pack200 guru here and I know he's busy/away at the moment
> so I plan to hold onto this patch until I at least hear from him.
>
> -Alan.
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/162