No question of it, Esteban--I was in a hurry and wanted to pen something
off quickly without getting into the details of deprecation. (Also,
technically, deprecation is a "Java" topic, and would therefore be as
off-topic for this list as discussions of ClassLoaders or Threads.)
Ted Neward
http://www.javageeks.com/~tneward
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Esteban Felipe wrote:
> I believe that Jian deserves a better answer.
>
> Jian, a deprecated method is like a "marked" method that means that's something
> wrong with it implementation. Often people find bugs in methods that are
> reported to Sun. If they consider that there is a bug the fix the problem and
> mark the old method like deprecated just to keep compability with software
> writted with older version of JDK. Sometimes there is no need to find a bug,
> just a better way to do something to mark a method as deprecated. Ted is right
> when he says that someday this method will be removed so be careful when use
> them. Always is better to use the "new one". Look at javadocs beacause usually
> the "better ways" are documented there.
>
>
> Esteban Felipe
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> Ted Neward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/12/99 06:53:44 AM
>
> Please respond to Ted Neward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Subject: Re: Question on Deprecation
>
>
>
> Easy: don't use that method. It's deprecated because Sun plans on removing
> it from the API someday.
>
> Ted Neward
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jian Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999 7:35 PM
> Subject: Question on Deprecation
>
>
> >Hi, All,
> >
> >Forgive me if you think it's a dummy's question.:-)
> >
> >How to fix this warning?
> >
> >'PrintStream(OutputStream)' has been deprecated by the author of
> >'java.io.PrintStream'(J5014)
> >
> >I am using JDK1.2.1, JSDK2.1, JavaWebServer1.1.3. The programm I am
> >testing now is from Java Servlet Programming, a O'REILLY book by Jason
> >Hunter. I also use calsses from it, called com.oreilly.servlet package.
> >So, any confilct there? I have no new edition to try.;)
> >
> >Thanks in Advance.
> >
> >Jian
> >
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