JEP 253 webrev ready for review

Tomas Mikula tomas.mikula at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 02:55:10 UTC 2015


Hi Jonathan,

regarding skins, while I don't see anything immediately wrong with the
published API, I have trouble seeing how making skin implementations public
is going to be useful. In particular, the JEP states that one of the
success metrics is

Projects that depend on JavaFX internal APIs, in particular Scene Builder,
> ControlsFX, and JFXtras, continue to work after updating to the new API
> with no loss of functionality.


Can you, or someone else from those projects, give a concrete example how
making skins public will help?

Best,
Tomas

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Jonathan Giles <jonathan.giles at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks.
>
> For those of you interested in JEP 253 we've got some light weekend
> reading lined up for you. We are at a point where the JEP is basically
> ready to merge back into a mainline (public) repo, and out of its sandbox.
> Before we do that, we want any additional feedback from the community, if
> there is any remaining. The two links you'll want to peruse are as follows:
>
> JavaDocs: http://jonathangiles.net/javafx/jdk9/jep253/7/
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kcr/jep-253/webrev.00/
>
> Thanks,
> -- Jonathan
>


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