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Bug 344541

Summary:	Deprecate AdapterFactory
Product:	[RT] RAP	Reporter:	Rüdiger Herrmann <ruediger.herrmann>
Component:	RWT	Assignee:	Project Inbox <rap-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.5 M3
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Rüdiger Herrmann

2011-05-03 05:19:11 EDT

I suggest to deprecate (and later remove) the public AdapterFactory interface from RWT and the adapterfactory extension point and use it internally only.
RWT should focus on widgets and the like but rather not offer implementations of design patterns for its clients.
The current implementation fits exactly the needs of RWT but fails for sophisticated use cases (just to name one: registering different AdapterFactories for adaptables that inherit from other adaptables).

Those in need of an adapter implementation may resort to
* the "adapter pattern in org.eclipse.core.runtime":http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Adapters/index.html or
* "PerfectJPattern":http://perfectjpattern.sourceforge.net/dp-adapter.html
* ...

Comment 1 Rüdiger Herrmann

2011-10-14 09:02:24 EDT

Marked the AdapterFactory and the adapterfactory extension point as deprecated.
Changes are in CVS HEAD.

Comment 2 Ralf Sternberg

2012-09-22 11:20:19 EDT

Removed in commit 8452ac1, RAP 2.0M2.