On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:16 PM, dbrosIus <dbros...@baybroadband.net> wrote:
> Might want to drop commons-date as well. Want people to use java.time > Or Joda-Time if you're on Java < 8. Gary > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> > Date: 5/21/17 7:56 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org> > Subject: [LANG] Thoughts about Lang 4.0 > > Hi, > > I think the time has come to start thinking about Lang 4.0. A new major > release is a chance to clean up stuff and get rid of APIs we don’t need > anymore/don’t want to maintain anymore. Lang has become rather large. It’s > description still is > > „Lang provides a host of helper utilities for the java.lang API […]" > > When I look at Lang I see a lot of stuff which has nothing to do with the > java.lang package. I think our aim for 4.0 should be to get back to that > again. I like the approach we took with math. Splitting a large package > down into smaller individual components is a good idea. So my proposal is > to split out more new components from Lang like we did with commons-text > and deprecate that stuff in lang. Then we can start with Lang 4.0 and > remove all that stuff. > > Here are some components I think we could extract from Lang: > > - commons-system: a library focused on working with system properties and > detection of the operation system, system’s architecture and Java version > - commons-concurrent: a library providing additional abstractions and > implementations for the java.util.concurrent package > - commons-reflect: a library which helps working with reflection (where is > the line to beanutils here?) > - commons-date: a library which helps working with the java.util.Date and > java.util.Calendar APIs > > Furthermore I’d remove the o.a.c.lang3.event package. The stuff in > o.a.c.lang3.math could maybe find a new home in one of the commons-math > components. > > The o.a.c.lang3.builder package fits into Lang 4.0 but I’d rename it to > o.a.c.lang4.object (if that’s possible). Further more I’d remove the > Builder interface. > > The o.a.c.lang3.mutable and o.a.c.lang3.tuple package as well as the > o.a.c.lang3.exception package can stay as they are. > > WDYT? > 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
