Hi Jerry
never used eclipse myself as i find it tough to figure out if issues are 
actually code related or just a flaky IDE.

what happens when you try dates in the groovyConsole or as a script ? i tend to 
use the groovyConsole as it (almost) always gives me code i can paste into the 
final product. 

if i feel really grumpy, this annotation helps:  @SuppressWarnings( 
"deprecation" )

also i only use ISO  dates and just convert back&forth but rarely use local 
date approach. almost worth roll your own Date class for future stuff.

Have a GR8 day !
thx
jim


On Jan 10, 2016, at 5:41 AM, Gerald Wiltse wrote:

> I'm sure this is old topic, but I can't find clear answer. IT's about Date(), 
> but i suppose it's true for anything "Java" which Groovy has decorated. 
> 
> Apparently, Java Date() is ancient, disliked, and now a bunch of the 
> fundamental Java Date() stuff is all "deprecated".  Fortunately, Groovys new 
> Date().parse(string,string) constructor still works for me.  But, everything 
> I try to do with my date object now says deprectated.  It gives me all the 
> good code completion, and shows that it's suggesting Groovy methods, but when 
> I implement it puts a strikethrough, and says of course... 
> 
> setYear
> 
> @Deprecated
> public void setYear(int year)
> Deprecated. As of JDK version 1.1, replaced by Calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, 
> year + 1900).
> 1.  I want to color inside the lines, so should I move toward using all 
> Calendar objects and methods and completely avoid using Date() on new 
> projects?  It's no problem, I just don't see that clearly stated anywhere in 
> the Groovy docs. 
> 
> 2.  OR... are Groovy date methods alive and well and somehow I can tell 
> eclipse to stop associated with the old Java classes when Groovy ones are 
> present?
> 
> If this is an eclipse only issue, then I'm sorry. 
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Regards,
> Jerry
> 
> 
> Gerald R. Wiltse
> [email protected]
> 

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