On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:38:42PM +0200, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > > 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. Currently this is true of the official and blackdown implementations. I've never seen anything that says deprecated methods are guaranteed to exist until API version X, or that they're guranteed to be removed by version X. So I would say that it is not safe to assume that all java2 runtimes, even mainstream ones, are guaranteed to always be java1 compliant. Mike
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