Adding new Attribute Interfaces to java-api.

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Mon Sep 23 15:12:41 EDT 2013


On 9/23/13 2:46 PM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:
>
>Interfaces for those objects were explicitly removed in v3, reversing
>warrants a review of that fundamental design choice. So, no, I am not
>in favor at the moment because the original author specifically did
>not do so.

I don't like locking people into specific classes in Java as an API for
components like this because it limits implementation flexibility. I do
see that it was changed, but I really have no understanding of why, or why
it would be a good thing. I see it as a pretty universal bad.

-- Scott




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