The rise and fall of Builders

[Tom Eugelink]

This week I ran into the problem that I needed to provide a date format (attribute in FXML) to one of my controls. So I needed a way to convert a string to DateFormat, or even a comma separated list to a list of DateFormats. This I solved with a builder for that control. How would one solved that without builders? (What is the alternative to builders?)

Tom


On 2013-08-29 22:42, Richard Bair wrote:
> 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
>>>