Re: [java-gnome-hackers] RE: Want Java-Gnome help?

[Philip A. C. <pc...@td...>]

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 09:42, Tom Ball wrote:
> That sounds great.

Glad to have you on board.  Welcome.

> Sure, I can help clean that up so the old handling code can be ditched.=20
> One reason open source work is so refreshing is that for years I could
> never fix API-related problems in the JRE; one can add to the API over
> time, but never remove due to backward compatibility constraints.  As a
> result, some things could never be properly addressed.  So let's get the
> API as good as possible before there's an installed base to worry about.

Amen!
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> BTW, has the team read Josh Bloch's book, Effective Java?  As James
> wrote in the forward, I wish we'd known these rules years ago when the
> first APIs were designed.

That book is now on my wish list at Amazon.  Thanks for the reference.

Again, welcome.  I appreciate your interest in helping.

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Philip A. Chapman