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Re: [JSF-API] ExternalContext

From: Matthias Wessendorf <matzew_at_apache.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:47:26 +0200

fwiw, I filed this "double" bug:

https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=438

soon implemented in Trinidad's ExternalContextUtil... ;-)

-M

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew_at_apache.org> wrote:
> I'd suggest a "getName()" or "getContextName()" on ExternalContext as well.
>
> servletCtx => getServletContextName()
> portletCtx => getPortletContextName()
>
> What do you guys think ?
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Jim Driscoll <Jim.Driscoll_at_sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Ryan Lubke wrote:
>>>
>>> Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does that mean on the other hand that on work will go into JSF 1.2 for
>>>> maintaining as well?
>>>> Or is just the spec "closed" ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The third maintenance release for 1.2 is in progress, but it's
>>> clarifications only, not new features/APIs. We tried adding new
>>> features for the first MR, but we couldn't due to TCK issues.
>>
>>
>> That's a general rule for all Java specs - API changes after the spec goes
>> final are very, very rare - because the end user of the API should know what
>> classes and methods are there by looking at the version number - if you
>> change things with the same version, the thought is that it can be very
>> confusing for the end user.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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