The rise and fall of Builders

[Richard Bair]

You can still use your own Builders and plug them into FXML. Its just that the built in set won't be there. But the Builder base class and all the FXML support is still there. All mentioned in that long thread :-D

Richard

On Aug 29, 2013, at 9:50 PM, Tom Eugelink <tbee at tbee.org> wrote:

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> 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?)
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> Tom
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> 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.
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>> Best to cycle off the builders.
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>> Richard
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>> On Aug 29, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Thanks Jonathan,
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>>> So what is Oracle's current position on this?  Are Builders in or out?  If
>>> out, when will they be removed and how?
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>>> On 30 August 2013 05:31, Jonathan Giles <jonathan.giles at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>>> You can catch up on the back story here:
>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2013-March/006725.html
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>>>> -- Jonathan
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>>>> 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
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