Re: Re-precating (?) classes (was: RE: What is a Parser?)

[Nicola Ken Barozzi]

Noel J. Bergman wrote:

Nicola,

Why do you deprecate something?

When we recommend that something is not used anymore, as is the case with Java API deprecation. It also means that we won't support it in the future.

Do you deprecate something because there is
a better way, or because there are good reasons not to use something?

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/misc/deprecation/deprecation.html

Why *deprecate* Component and related items?  Is there a reason not to use
Component, or is it just better to be able to use an Object that is not a
Component?

In the Java API methods are deprecated even only when there is a name chenge (ie the addition of a set* to names).
The fact that it is better to be able to use an object directly is a sufficient reason for deprecation.

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