Swing generification changes in JDK 9 b24

[Phil Race]

Whilst new whizz-bang features are unlikely, Swing is part of SE for the 
foreseeable
future and will be updated and maintained as such and (perhaps) even 
enhanced
in small ways where it is apparent that it is important.

-phil.

On 7/30/2014 10:31 AM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
>
> On 7/30/2014 8:07 AM, Ben Evans wrote:
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> Apologies if this has been explained elsewhere, but how does this fit
>> with the series of announcements that Swing is officially deprecated
>> and JavaFX is where it's at, as we've been hearing for a couple of
>> years now? If Swing really is a deprecated API, then why such a large
>> and potentially breaking change?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ben
>
> The general goal here in the warnings cleanup effort was to improve 
> the JDK code base as a whole rather than to improve swing in 
> particular. Rather than just suppressing the warning, we wanted to 
> instead make a good-faith (if belated) effort to generify swing and 
> other parts of the JDK.
>
> There is some on-going maintenance of swing even independent of the 
> warnings cleanup:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20jdk%20and%20Subcomponent%20%3D%20%22javax.swing%22%20and%20fixVersion%20%20%3D%209%20and%20status%20%3D%20Resolved 
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Joe