Well, I finally bit the bullet the other day and so far, it's been transparent. I'm using
Maven and the
JBoss repository which means that I only had to update the api and implementation version ID's in the POM and do a clean rebuild.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
