The rise and fall of Builders

[Richard Bair]

Deprecated in 8 and removed from the JavaDoc, gone in 9 (will be available as a separately downloadable Jar so you can keep using them, but they won't be updated). We're removing them from samples.

Best to cycle off the builders.

Richard

On Aug 29, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jonathan,
> 
> So what is Oracle's current position on this?  Are Builders in or out?  If
> out, when will they be removed and how?
> 
> 
> On 30 August 2013 05:31, Jonathan Giles <jonathan.giles at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> You can catch up on the back story here:
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2013-March/006725.html
>> 
>> -- Jonathan
>> 
>> On 30/08/2013 7:06 a.m., Felix Bembrick wrote:
>>> I was not privy to the original discussion but I am lead to believe that
>> Builders are no longer considered fashionable and that we are advised not
>> to use them.
>>> 
>>> While I realise that every type of Node basically needed its own
>> Builder, could someone please outline why this situation has arisen?  Is it
>> something to do with "fluent APIs" themselves or some other reason?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Felix
>> 
>>