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On 1/26/2018 9:16 AM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 5:10:09 PM UTC-5, Eric Sosman wrote:
>>       If you're calling these methods from your own code, you have been
>> sinning and are now receiving your punishment.  See
>>
>>      <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/faq-sun-packages-142232.html>
>>
>>       Two courses of action seem plausible if this is the case: To remove
>> the not-part-of-official-Java stuff from your code and rely on the
>> "published" API's instead, or to hope there's a SwingUtilities3 (?)
>> package with methods not too dissimilar to those you've been (ab)using.
>> The first is certainly preferable if you can, er, swing it, since it
>> leaves you less exposed to breakage in future Java versions (and allows
>> you to use non-Oracle Java implementations, too).  The second, if it
>> works at all, is at best an ugly hack.
>>  [...]
> 
> As far as I could tell there were no published APIs for the methods I needed.  [...]

     Then you'll have to keep maintaining an ugly hack, and keep
on dealing with version-to-version (and vendor-to-vendor) breakage.
It's up to you to weigh the advantages of non-portable code against
the ongoing maintenance cost; I don't think anyone here is in a
position to evaluate the tradeoffs on your behalf.

-- 
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One thousand ninety days to go.

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Java 9 Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-01-25 13:03 -0800
  Re: Java 9 Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-01-25 13:10 -0800
    Re: Java 9 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-01-25 20:16 -0500
      Re: Java 9 Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-01-26 06:43 -0800
  Re: Java 9 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-01-25 17:09 -0500
    Re: Java 9 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-01-25 20:00 -0500
    Re: Java 9 Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-01-26 06:16 -0800
      Re: Java 9 Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-01-26 09:37 -0500
  Re: Java 9 Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2018-01-25 17:23 -0600
    Re: Java 9 Hiram Hunt <hiramhunt@verizon.net> - 2018-01-26 08:31 -0500
      Re: Java 9 Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-01-26 06:06 -0800
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