Re: [xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Use AspectJ aspects for implementing backward compatibility in XWiki

Done: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2059 The mechanism is now in place. See the aspect here: http://tinyurl.com/2bgrxj Thanks -Vincent On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like us to agree on using the strategy described here: > http://blogs.sonatype.com/john/2007/11/09/1194630418546.html > > This has several advantages: > > 1) Keeps our code clean > 2) Put all backward compatibility code in a single place which makes > it easy too to remove when the time has come > > Here's my +1 > > If we agree I'll do a try of using this approach for moving out the > deprecated methods in the XWiki class into an aspect. It should be a > piece of cake since we already have the aspectj plugin in place for > the core build. > > Thanks > -Vincent