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Re: classpath puzzle

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: classpath puzzle
Date	2012-06-08 08:26 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:46:07 +0300, Jukka Lahtinen
<jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>
>Aren't those sun.* classes in rt.jar ones meant for ONLY internal use by
>other classes of the sdk library, NOT for application programmers?

Yes but there are certain things you can only do by using them,  like
turning of the logging of a zillion malformed cookie errors
from kobo.com

Sun has the right to change the API, delete methods etc without
notice. With other methods in the API they deprecate. Sun does not
feel obligated to document its internal methods to the same extent it
does the normal API.

They are making it a bit difficult to use the methods to ensure people
don't use them without good reason.  For example they want you to use
your own Base64 rather than use the built in one.  I guess they did
not have the budget to bring their Base64 up to exposure standards.

-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
~ Brian W. Kernighan 1942-01-01
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classpath puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-07 17:50 -0700
  Re: classpath puzzle markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-07 18:08 -0700
    Re: classpath puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-07 18:45 -0700
      Re: classpath puzzle Tom McGlynn <taqmcg@gmail.com> - 2012-06-08 06:32 -0700
        Re: classpath puzzle markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-08 15:22 -0700
        Re: classpath puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-08 20:55 -0700
  Re: classpath puzzle Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-06-08 07:46 +0300
    Re: classpath puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-08 08:26 -0700

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