Hello, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> schrieb am So., 20. Nov. 2016 um 16:50 Uhr:
> Let's recognize that these annotations can give you a false sense of > confidence, you still should read at least the docs and probably the code > if you REALLY care about thread safety. > I thought about this again today on my way to work and came up with the same conclusion. > > There will be mistakes in documentation where the wrong or contradictory > annotation will split in and/or will be out of sync with Javadocs. At least > that's what is likely to happen _over time_. > agreed. > > IOW, its a nice idea but not a panacea for actual thread safety. > agreed. > > The other issue is that if we are serious about this we are going to end up > with the same annotations in all Commons packages. We could reuse > javax.annotation.concurrent from JSR 305 as published in > > https://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Ccom.google.code.findbugs%7Cjsr305%7C3.0.1%7Cjar > (CLASS level retention). > The logical conclusion from your comments above would imply to put some tests or static code analysis in place which can verify whether the real thread safety properties match the documented ones. I'm not aware of any tool which can do that. So maybe should rather document why we don't document thread safety :-) Benedikt > > Gary > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > after my presentation about Apache Commons, there where some comments > about > > [lang]. One person said, that it is hard to find out whether our classes > > are threadsafe or not. He would like to see that better documented. > > > > I know that sebb has done some work in that direction, but as far as I > know > > the information about thread safety is currently only in Java comments. > > > > How can we improve our docs with regards to thread safety? I see several > > ways: > > - Custom annotations like @Immutable, @ThreadSafe, @NotThreadSafe > > - Custom JavaDoc doclets > > - Put the information right into the JavaDoc > > > > Anything else? > > > > Benedikt > > > > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > < > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617290459/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1617290459&linkCode=as2&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=cadb800f39946ec62ea2b1af9fe6a2b8 > > > > <http://// > ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l=am2&o=1&a=1617290459> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition > < > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935182021/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935182021&linkCode=as2&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=31ecd1f6b6d1eaf8886ac902a24de418%22 > > > > <http://// > ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l=am2&o=1&a=1935182021> > Spring Batch in Action > < > https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935182951/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935182951&linkCode=%7B%7BlinkCode%7D%7D&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=%7B%7Blink_id%7D%7D%22%3ESpring+Batch+in+Action > > > <http://// > ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l=am2&o=1&a=1935182951> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >
