@Supported design issues

[Alan Bateman]

On 20/03/2013 01:32, Joseph Darcy wrote:
>
> Following up in the same thread, the JEP for this work is now 
> available for your reading pleasure at:
>
>     JEP 179: Document JDK API Support and Stability
>     http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/179
Joe - do you want to reboot this discussion? With the deadline for API 
changes looming then it would be good to get agreement on whether we are 
going to do anything on this. I still have the patch to add this to the 
APIs that we generate javadoc for in the build - this is the same set of 
APIs that I understand to be stable APIs and okay for 
applications/libraries to make direct use of.

Given the previous discussion then getting agreement on whether this is 
a boolean or something more seems important. Clearly there are corner 
cases (a few of these came up in the original discussion) but a simple 
label to convey that an API is stable seems a good start. The other 
problematic issue was the naming, clearly "Supported" results in too 
many questions, "by who?" in particular. Have you considered alternative 
names? I realize this is open to bikeshedding. Personally I wouldn't 
have a problem with jdk.Stable if appropriately defined.

-Alan