JavaFX Builders, possible solution

[Stephen F Northover]

Hi Andy,

It is unlikely that we will undeprecate the builders but more likely 
that we could make them available as a separate download so that people 
that wanted to use them could still use them.

Martin will follow up with you.  Essentially, we would accept changes 
that were backward compatible to the deprecated builders.jar that we 
make right now, but we are not interested in taking the builder code 
base forward ourselves at this time.

Steve

On 2013-10-30 8:25 AM, Lesley Perkins wrote:
> In case it wasn't clear, I'm submitting this to the JavaFX team in hopes that we can UNdeprecate the builders in Java 9.  Is this a possibility?
>
> --Andy
>
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> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:00 PM
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> Subject: JavaFX Builders, possible solution
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> I briefly discussed the builder deprecation with Richard when he visited our company back in May.  One of the ways he said to test any solution would be to build a library jar with the test hierarchy, then build a client jar using the library jar, then change the hierarchy in the library code and run the client jar against the new library jar without re-compiling the client jar.
>
> I have done that, and it works in my simple test:
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> BuilderLibA - is the "original" builder library (my version)
> BuilderClient - is the client app (main class is com.cpex.javafx.test.BuilderClientTest), built against the BuilderLibA.jar.
> BuilderLibB - I have inserted a new class in the hierarchy between RegionBuilderBase and ParentBuilderBase.
>
> I had tested the solution in both JDK 7 and JDK 8, a few months back, and then forgot about it as several other things came up.  All of the code has been uploaded to DropBox:
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> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fs8o105bvmr4s2k/ze-hJssiHC
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> If there is something else that I'm missing in this issue let me know...I really hate to see builders go away.
>
> --Andy
>
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