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Many people seem to be upset with Oracle, but I think they should be upset with the vendors who ship applications/libraries that depend on the "sun.*" packages.
by kkmickos 11y ago
Many people seem to be upset with Oracle, but I think they should be upset with the vendors who ship applications/libraries that depend on the "sun.*" packages.
Oracle (then Sun) have since _1998_ strongly discouraged the use of them: https://web.archive.org/web/19980215011039/http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/faq/faq-sun-packages.html https://web.archive.org/web/19980215011039/http://java.sun.c...
- Someone1234 11y agoFine, but why isn't the argument: "This then needs to be standardised in a Java.* package and correctly documented." Unsafe is useful, and is evident by how popular it is. Heck even Sun/Oracle must agree because they created it for their own internal usage. So why not just go ahead and standardise it.