Color.white vs. Color.WHITE

[Niels Dybdahl]

Way back some AWT colors was predefined as Color.white etc.

Then SUN realized this apparent naming style violation and
added Color.WHITE etc.

As a client application developer I must now choose between
the non-standard (and possibly soon-to-be-deprecated)
Color.white and the not-backwards-compatible Color.WHITE.

I've ended up with new Color (255, 255, 255) instead.

Just stick with Color.white. I doubt it will go away.

Niels Dybdahl

 

[Jacob]

Way back some AWT colors was predefined as Color.white etc.

Then SUN realized this apparent naming style violation and
added Color.WHITE etc.

As a client application developer I must now choose between
the non-standard (and possibly soon-to-be-deprecated)
Color.white and the not-backwards-compatible Color.WHITE.

I've ended up with new Color (255, 255, 255) instead.

Which proves that improvements doesn't always bring the
(computing) world forward

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

Which proves that improvements doesn't always bring the
(computing) world forward

How could it, when so many people insist on being
backward(s-compatible)?

 

[Chris Smith]

As a client application developer I must now choose between
the non-standard (and possibly soon-to-be-deprecated)
Color.white and the not-backwards-compatible Color.WHITE.

I've ended up with new Color (255, 255, 255) instead.

There's no need for that. If you're deploying on Java 1.1 (and I'd be
forced to wonder why, but that's another matter...) then use
Color.white. When you're deploying on more recent Java runtime
versions, use Color.WHITE instead. Eventually, people will stop
deploying code on 1.1, and Color.white will go away.

I can say with some certainty that Sun won't remove the old name until
it is well past no longer necessary. (As a reference point, note that
Java 5.0 still provides the same deprecated event model that was made
obsolete by Java 1.1)

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