[BBB-DEV] Re: org.jdesktop.beansbinding.Property should be interface

[Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giudici@tidalwave.it>]

   [Note: I'm only replying to BBB]

Peter Levart wrote:
> Is it possible to change it to interface?
I really like your proposal, so we must work to have it implemented in 
some way. Unfortunately, we can't change o.j.b.Property to an interface, 
as we'd break the binary compatibility as you said and compatibility is 
really important for us.

First quick idea (I'm in a drive break, so can't really think deeply 
over it): what about having o.j.b.Property implementing Props? And 
changing the current methods accepting a o.j.b.Property to accept a 
Props? I can't tell on the fly whether they would be binary backward 
compatible, if not we could just add overloaded methods.


BTW, the things you suggest could be easily implemented automatically by 
just annotating the class and introducing an annotator processor in the 
compiler.

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