[threeten-dev] [threeten-develop] Integration with other JDK classes

[Stephen Colebourne]

On 5 December 2012 15:49, Christopher Schultz
<chris at christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> It seems to me that the 310 API should be the new standard that
> java.util.Calendar never was: java.util.Calendar didn't really work with
> any existing classes (e.g. java.text.SimpleDateFormat) and so most code
> I see uses Calendar as much as possible but then has to fall-back to
> java.util.Date. If components like java.text.SimpleDateFormat,
> java.sql.PreparedStatement, etc. can support the new classes from 310,
> no changes will need to be made to java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar
> and they can be fully deprecated.

The 310 classes will work directly with JDBC, and they will have their
own new formatter.

Date/Calendar aren't going to be deprecated, so its a case of how much
interoperation to provide. The intention has been to not provide any
reference to the "old" classes from the "new" 310 ones (in the public
API).

Stephen