Re: JDialog weirdness - what to do?

[Roman Kennke]

Am Freitag, den 04.03.2005, 11:22 +0100 schrieb Christopher Oezbek:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:45:13 +0100, Thomas Zander <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >  if future versions define another item then you can still
> > _set_ that item on an older version without getting an exception.
> > It just won't do what you expect it to do.  Which in this case isn't  
> > halve
> > bad.
> 
> In the future enums should solve that problem it seems. With them you can  
> add items without forcing older clients to recompile and they make it hard  
> to set invalid values :)

While this is true in general, this does not apply to the standard
libraries. In an ideal world every occurance of ints for enum-like
constructs should be replaced by real enums, but this cannot happen in
java.* and javax.* for backwards compatibility. All the crap that was
once coded into the standard library will probably stay there forever.
Only in very rare cases Sun significantly changes odd behavior (example:
getContentPane() in JFrame in 1.5)

/Roman

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