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

[Lance Andersen - Oracle]

On Dec 5, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:

> On 5 December 2012 16:35, Lance Andersen - Oracle
> <Lance.Andersen at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> I'm happy to not upgrade the sql classes. However it should be noted
>>> that any methods, such as toInstant() or from(...) will be inherited
>>> by the sql classes, providing another oddity for developers.
>> 
>> So java.util.Date was extended?  Then this will cause issues if the sql classes do not at least override and throw an Exception such as setMinutes().
>> 
>> So we will need to discuss this I guess and who will do the work
> 
> j.u.Date ,ay get a toInstant() methods and a from(...) static method.
> sql.Date and sql.Time may want to block the toInstant().

thanks for the info.  let me follow up with Douglas, Roger and Sherman and then I can figure out what we really need to do to these lovely classes :-)

Best
Lance
> 
> Stephen
> 
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