Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
We will not be
removing them from the spec and just because something is deprecated, it
does not mean that it should not be implemented or ignored. It just
means that there are alternative methods that are recommended.
Wow! This is not how I understood the word deprecation. I looked it up
on wikipedia because I thought maybe I was using it wrong all these
years. I am a big fan of a *very *long deprecation period, but I never
imagined that new drivers would need to implement deprecated methods.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation*
In computer software <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software>
standards and documentation, *deprecation* is the gradual phasing-out of
a software or programming language
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming_language> feature.
A feature or method marked as deprecated is one which is considered
obsolete, and whose use is discouraged. The feature still works in the
current version of the software, although it may raise error messages
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_message> as warnings. These serve to
alert the user to the fact that the feature may be removed in future
releases.
Is there some official language around what deprecation means for the
JDBC API?
Kathey
