I'm sorry, I'm following a list and I had no idea there were many occurrences of the same mailing list.
> Il 31 luglio 2019 alle 13.35 Gary Gregory < garydgreg...@gmail.com > mailto:garydgreg...@gmail.com > ha scritto: > > > 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 > mailto: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 > > > > > [photo-logo] Fernando Petrulio PhD Student University of Zurich UZH Department of Informatics [linkedin] https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-petrulio
