Apple Extensions are not documented in Java 7 API Docs

[Eric Richardson]

This may be totally off base but is there any reason *not* to change
the OpenJDK build to include some javadoc generation for this
additional API?

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Paul Taylor <paul_t100 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 13/08/2012 15:40, Mario Torre wrote:
>>
>> 2012/8/13 Paul Taylor <paul_t100 at fastmail.fm>:
>>
>>> You really should aim to incorporate support for these features (however
>>> it
>>> is done) because Apple is only addressing shortfalls in Java Swing
>>> because
>>> of its Windows centric approach. Seeing that Apple have made these
>>> extensions available to the Oracle 7 build they must been keen for you to
>>> a
>>> good job. It cannot be right to not document these features because  they
>>> are deprecated features that shouldnt be used in new projects, they are
>>> the
>>> only way to create quality Apple applications at the moment.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>> Artem already provided you with a rationale why this is not going
>> to be supported, which is particularly valid since the mac port project
>> is part of the official OpenJDK repository.
>>
>> Note that the fact that is not an official library, doesn't mean it's
>> not there. You can surely find a way to keep using those extensions,
>> the Mac guys can even help you with that, but the standard word of
>> warning that if you use this extensions your programs may break any
>> time is to be expected.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mario
>
> You seem to be missing the point bigtime here.
>
> Its not an official library, but it is shipped as part of the jdk, Im not
> downloading it from a 3rd party. So as it is being delivered why is it not
> documented ?
>
> Going forward surely it is a good thing for Java to be able to support the
> desktop on different oses as good as possible, why would you want to break
> this, do you develop OSX desktop applications yourself
>
> Paul