Deprecated features are still available. There are still tagged, so that their use is discouraged, since they might be removed in a later release. As far as I know, nothing has ever been removed yet.I would think that java2 is a superset of java1.
Unfortunately, this is not the case; the deprecation of methods and classes make java2 an intersecting set, not a superset of java1.
Technically, if a package requires the java1 API, it will run with a java2 implementation. So I maintain that java 2 runtimes should provide java1-runtime.
If Java 3 actually removed some deprecated features, then the situation will be different.
I agree that such a JVM (runtime) could provide only java2-runtime. Those that include the deprecated methods should provide both.Agreed in principle. However, there are cases where a JVM might provide java2-runtime but not java1-runtime: the cases where the deprecated methods on various classes are not properly supported or implemented.
Is there any existing runtime that does this?
Daniel
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