On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:38:42 +0200 Daniel Bonniot <Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr> wrote: > > > I would think that java2 is a superset of java1. > > > > Unfortunately, this is not the case; the deprecation of methods and > > classes make java2 an intersecting set, not a superset of java1. > > Deprecated features are still available. There are still tagged, so > that their use is discouraged, since they might be removed in a later > release. As far as I know, nothing has ever been removed yet. > Technically, if a package requires the java1 API, it will run with a > java2 implementation. So I maintain that java 2 runtimes should > provide java1-runtime. > > If Java 3 actually removed some deprecated features, then the > situation will be different. I agree with Daniel, that's one of the problem of Java, the grow of the number of methods. They should remove a lot of the deprecated methods, it will be lighter ;) -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** : :' : Arnaud Vandyck `. `' http://alioth.debian.org/users/arnaud-guest/ `- http://alioth.debian.org/developer/diary.php?diary_user=2781
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