Adam Winer wrote:
Yes unfortunately, Sun has the habit of deprecating stuff but never removing it.Sadly, no. There's code in J2SE that's been deprecated since JDK 1.2 but is still there in 1.6, and will be forever.
One of the reasons why parts of the J2SE API have become a complete mess over time (the whole Date, Calendard stuff for instance) the problem with the deprecated stuff is, that you still can useit but there is some chance that one time in the future it simply will stop working.
