To all GWT contributors- As you may know, there many exciting things<http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/makinggwtbetter.html#roadmap> we're working on for GWT 2.0. With all the new features coming your way we thought GWT 2.0 would be a good opportunity to clean house and remove previously deprecated methods and classes. In many cases an equivalent replacement is suggested in the Javadoc and updating your projects should hopefully not be too onerous.
While different sections of the API have been deprecated in different releases we wanted to make things as straightforward as possible for the upcoming release. As such, our plan for GWT 2.0 is to remove everything that was marked as deprecated in previous releases. We did not introduce any new deprecations in GWT 1.7 so you can find the complete list of items we plan to remove in this GWT 1.6 document: http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/javadoc/1.6/deprecated-list.html If you have any serious concerns about the above deprecation list, please reply back to indicate how you will be affected. In particular I'm interested in any use cases in the GWT 1.6/1.7 API which you feel would not be covered in GWT 2.0 once the @deprecated methods and classes have been removed. Please note that Java compilers are required to warn you<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/javadoc/deprecation/deprecation.html#how> when your code uses @deprecated methods or classes. Although there are warning suppression mechanisms such as the @SuppressWarnings annotation and your IDE's or build environment's settings. So, in general, chances are you are probably not using any deprecated GWT APIs without knowing about it. Thanks-- Fred Sauer Developer Advocate Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
