Kishori Sharan, Java 9 Revealed, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2592-9_15

15. Enhanced Deprecation

Kishori Sharan¹

(1)Montgomery, Alabama, USA

In this chapter, you will learn:

How to deprecate your APIs
The roles of the @deprecate Javadoc tag and the @Deprecation annotation in deprecating APIs
The detailed rules that are used to generated deprecation warnings
Updates to the @Deprecation annotation in JDK 9
New deprecation warnings in JDK 9
How to use the @SuppressWarnings annotation to suppress different types of deprecation warnings in JDK 9
How to use the static analysis tool named jdeprscan to scan your compiled codebase to find the uses of deprecated JDK APIs

What Is Deprecation?

Deprecation in Java is a way to provide information about the ...

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