Please Review: refactor of Chronology class

[Joe Darcy]

Hi Roger,

Looks fine; thanks,

-Joe

On 10/14/2013 7:34 AM, roger riggs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The java.time.chrono.Chronology should be split into an interface for 
> Chronology
> and an AbstractChronology class that is the base for implementing a 
> Chronology.
>
> A number of static methods on the java.time.chrono.Chronology class are
> inherited by subclasses but can be incorrectly understood to be 
> instance methods.
> The methods 'from(Temporal)', of(String)', 'ofLocale(Locale)', and
> 'getAvailableChronologies()' all have the same static inheritance 
> problem.
> They are intended as methods returning a Chronology but in the context
> of a specific Chronology, for example JapaneseChronology, can be confused
> with methods that return a JapaneseDate.
>
> Please Review:
>
> webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-chrono-interface-8025719/
>
> javadoc:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/javadoc-chrono-interface-8025719/
>
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025719