Nobody disallows it an EJB broke BW compatibility from EJB 2 to EJB 3, too, and plans to drop even more legacy features in future. So why should especially rather new JAX RS not be allowed to?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Burke [mailto:bburke_at_redhat.com]
> Sent: Freitag, 13. Mai 2011 13:37
> To: jsr339-experts_at_jax-rs-spec.java.net
> Subject: [jsr339-experts] Re: Low-level JAX-RS client API proposal
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> On 5/13/11 7:28 AM, Marek Potociar wrote:
> > While I can personally see some benefits, that's not the common Java
> EE strategy. I would be very skeptical about
> > proposing to break BW compatibility.
> >
>
> Are you even allowed to break BW compatibility? I know in the EE group
> you can't even remove an API unless it is deprecated for at least one
> EE
> release.
>
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