Re: Upcoming deprecations in 4.1 version

> On Feb 2, 2018, at 10:53 AM, Nikita Timofeev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> - cayenne-joda module
> PR is already done for this, there is some discussion too [1].

With Joda stating on their site that "[..] from Java SE 8 onwards, users are asked to migrate to java.time (JSR-310) - a core part of the JDK which replaces this project.", deprecating it makes sense in 4.1 that requires Java 8.

> - password encoding settings in the Modeler
> This one is more about redesigning this feature, then just deprecation.
> Think this should be discussed s Just wanted to mention it here also.

This is very much in line with moving configuration of all Java strategies to DI.

> - cayenne-dbcp2 support;
> Does anyone still using this?

[..]

> For me it seems better to document how to create custom data source
> and give some examples, instead of trying to guess what will be needed by users.

Yeah, while DBCP2 by itself is probably alive and well, I'd rather we move trivial integrations into the docs. I suspect this one falls in a "trivial" category.

In other words I am +1 on all of these.

Andrus