Re: [nebula-dev] Date submissions - Eric and Jeremy

[Tom Schindl <listom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christopher J Gross schrieb:
[...]
>> > Both use on the deprecated Date class.  Calendar is the replacement.
>> >  Would like to see the primary getters/setters use Calendar and perhaps
>> > extra methods for Date.  Should also avoid GregorianCalendar as that
>> > doesn't exist on CLDC.
>> I am not really convinced that Calendar must be used in priority in
>> getters/setters. Even if many methods are deprecated, Date class is
>> always widely used in applications when there is no computations to do.
>> I think that none of Date and Calendar are fully satisfying, and both
>> are complementary : Date for display and format, Calendar for
> computations.
>> There is no problem to have setters for both types. But it is not so
>> simple for getters.
> Sure many application use Date, but it seems strange to make the primary
> getters/setters use a deprecated class.  Why not just have
> getSelection/setSelection use Calendar and another pair,
> getDate/setDate, use Date?
> 

Well the Date-class itself is not deprecated only most of its methods.
Date is used as a datastorage.

Tom