[HBASE-22605] Ref guide includes dev guidance only applicable to EOM versions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 1.5.0, 2.3.0, 2.0.6, 2.2.1, 2.1.6, 1.3.6, 1.4.11
• Component/s: documentation
• Labels: beginner
• Assignee: Mingliang Liu
• Reporter: Sean Busbey
• Created: 19/Jun/19 15:07
• Updated: 03/Oct/19 07:42
• Resolved: 20/Jun/19 14:15

Description

The ref guide section on developer guidance has this blurb:

Implementing Writable

Applies pre-0.96 only

In 0.96, HBase moved to protocol buffers (protobufs). The below section on Writables applies to 0.94.x and previous, not to 0.96 and beyond.

Every class returned by RegionServers must implement the Writable interface. If you are creating a new class that needs to implement this interface, do not forget the default constructor.

(ref)

this should be removed.