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Re: demise of sun.com

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On 9/17/12 3:51 AM, John B. Matthews wrote:
> In article <m7rd58dh1dir8b30kltplg2tulhcp5f0cr@4ax.com>,
>   Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> wrote:
>
>> This is particularly annoying when you search for a problem and find
>> a 'solution' in a forum, which is just a link to a now nonexistent
>> web page.
>
> And how! As a concrete example, I frequently cite _A Swing Architecture
> Overview_ formerly here:
>
> <http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/architecture/>
>
> Now here:
>
> <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/architecture-142923.html>
>
> Note how the (now missing) embedded images still refer to the old site.
>
> They (eventually) normalized the API documentation into a convenient
> scheme:
>
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/index.html>
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/index.html>
> Etc.
I really wish they had normalized it to 
/javase/latest/docs/api/index.html, with 
/javase/archive/6/docs/api/index.html for the "older" versions.  Google 
still links to 1.4 in some cases, and rarely to 7 specifically.
>
> I can only hope for the best, while preparing for the worst.
>

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    Re: demise of sun.com Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> - 2012-09-17 10:28 +0100
      Re: demise of sun.com "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-17 06:51 -0400
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        Re: demise of sun.com Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-09-18 13:21 -0700
          Re: demise of sun.com Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-09-18 21:29 +0000
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