1) Nothing happened, this already went down years ago, as the author writes.
2) The setting was only stopping the BS IBM system layer, wasn't really needed elsewhere.
3) The BS setting was probably even default, e.g. not consciously enabled by someone for the specific system.
>What is the point of this javadoc reference and how exactly does it relate to the issue at hand?
The point is that the IBM system who had this setting was using that BS, brain-dead, not-JSON, implementation to handle the order, when the setting was enabled.
1) Nothing happened, this already went down years ago, as the author writes.
2) The setting was only stopping the BS IBM system layer, wasn't really needed elsewhere.
3) The BS setting was probably even default, e.g. not consciously enabled by someone for the specific system.
>What is the point of this javadoc reference and how exactly does it relate to the issue at hand?
The point is that the IBM system who had this setting was using that BS, brain-dead, not-JSON, implementation to handle the order, when the setting was enabled.