Fernando, You are posting the same message to the same mailing list with different subjects. Once is enough IMO.
Gary On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 5:30 AM <f.petru...@virgilio.it.invalid> wrote: > Dear Developers, > > we are members of the ZEST research group (Zurich Empirical Software > Engineering Team) based at the University of Zurich and the Delft > University of Technology. We are conducting an investigation on the > diffusion of innovations and we focus on the adoption of new language > features. Our research is focused on how API producers adapt their > interfaces to introduce support for Java 8’s lambdas. During the course of > our investigation, we manually inspected commons-fileupload, commons-lang, > and commons-logging’s source code and documentation to understand whether > Java’s lambdas have widespread adoption. We would like to have your > feedback on our findings. > > Our study focuses primarily on Functional Interfaces and Lambda > Expressions as these new features were introduced by the Java language and > adopted the Java JDK API, as they reduce implementation complexity, improve > readability, offer performance benefits and improve security > contextualization. > > Our analysis showed that commons-fileupload, commons-lang, and > commons-logging did not introduce compatibility with Java 8+ features, > including Functional Interfaces and Lambda Expression. We would like to > better understand as to why these APIs do not support newer Java language > versions and their features. > > Our investigation showed us that in most cases API producers do not > migrate their APIs to newer Java Releases. Despite this, the API remains to > be widely used by consumers on GitHub. Can you provide us with more > information on this phenomenon? > Did you and your team ever discuss the migration to new Java releases? If > so, what did this discussion entail? > What is the reason behind not migrating to a newer Java version? > Did the introduction of new language features such as lambda expressions > influence your decision in any way? > Does your API plan on introducing support for lambda expressions in the > future? > > We thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. If you would > like to be posted about the results of this study, please let us know! > > Kind Regards, > Fernando Petrulio. > > > > [photo-logo] > Fernando Petrulio > Ph.D. Student University of Zurich UZH > Department of Informatics > > [linkedin] https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-petrulio >
