Re: Re: project conversion questions

Vitezslav Stejskal <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:12:54 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.projects.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Tomas Zezula wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 08:48, Svata Dedic wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 08:33, Tomas Zezula wrote:
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>>
>>>I agree with Svata, the only problem is that Project is not a
>>>Node.Cookie :-(
>>>To allow this I will need to extend the Element interface by getLookup()
>>>method.
>>>      
>>>
>>So - another shot in bad direction :( I remembered that one of
>>Project/ProjectMember (still!) gets Node.Cookie injected by the
>>post-compilation steps and picked the wrong one; it's the Project class,
>>according to build script. 
>>    
>>
>Well, you are right but I would rather not depend on this.
>It is not an API and it can change in the future!!!!!
>
Absolutely, this will very likely change in the near future. 
Runtime-patching is a hack which can be used for backward compatibility 
reasons in some cases, but not in the production code of new API.

-vita