Proposing to deprecate the constructors in the `java.util.Locale` class. There is already a factory method and a builder to return singletons, so there is no need to have constructors anymore unless one purposefully wants to create `ill-formed` Locale objects, which is discouraged. We cannot terminally deprecate those constructors for the compatibility to serialized objects created with older JDKs. Please see the draft CSR for more detail.
------------- Commit messages: - 8282819: Deprecate Locale class constructors Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7947/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=7947&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8282819 Stats: 904 lines in 196 files changed: 74 ins; 22 del; 808 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7947.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/7947/head:pull/7947 PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7947
