Neal Gafter wrote:
I notice that
javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeSelectionModel.notifyPathChange
<http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/javax/swing/tree/DefaultTreeSelectionModel.html#notifyPathChange%28java.util.Vector,%20javax.swing.tree.TreePath%29>has
been deprecated "As of JDK version 1.7" with no further explanation in
its documentation. This method had the very strange property in 1.6
that the method itself was protected but it had a parameter that
mentions (in a generic type argument) a package-private type
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/tree/DefaultTreeSelectionModel.html#notifyPathChange%28java.util.Vector,%20javax.swing.tree.TreePath%29>,
which would make it hard to use correctly. Still, isn't it
traditional for the deprecation documentation to provide clients with
more explanation or assistance?
The bugID seems to be 6387579 with further issues in bugs that are
linked from there. I don't know why an explanation note wasn't included
but swing-dev or Peter (cc'ed) will know.
-Alan.
