Backwards compatibility broken: Why was Color made final

[Martin Sladecek]

Here's the related JIRA issue: https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-31746

-Martin

On 03/19/2014 09:46 AM, Randahl Fink Isaksen wrote:
> After upgrading to FX8, the framework I have been developing since the early access release of JavaFX three years ago is now broken.
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> My framework has some really cool features for working with color, which relies on our own class PaletteColor which extends javafx.scene.paint.Color.
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> Why would you, after three years, make the Color class final, thereby breaking backwards compatibility?
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> I would really like to know the thoughts behind that decision.
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> Yours
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> Randahl
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