You can use these APIs. They are only marked as experimental not because they are unstable or something like that, it means the API may change suddenly (methods get removed and so on). In 3.0 (which was released *now*) it is still experimental. So it's more "subject to change" than "unstable".
----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > -----Original Message----- > From: Ganesh [mailto:emailg...@yahoo.co.in] > Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 9:47 AM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: API changes in 2.9 > > Hello all, > > I am planning to upgrade from 2.4.1 to 2.9.1. I could see some API changes > and older APIs are deprecated. In 2.4, I use 'NumberTools' class to > convert long to String and now this API is deprecated. I think i have to > use 'NumericField' or 'NumericUtils', but in both the class there is a > note "NOTE: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways > in the next release. " > > Shall I go ahead and update the API or use the older one till 3.0? > > This red note is added to couple of other placeses. Shall we go ahead and > use these API or wait for 3.0? > > Regards > Ganesh > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
