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

[Lance Andersen - Oracle]

looks fine alan
On Oct 11, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:

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> 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:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8000362/webrev/
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> -Alan.
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> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/162


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