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Re:JDK 8 Release Notes by Pxtl on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @04:06PM (#7424638)
Breaking backwards compatibility isn't really an option, but if the compiler and IDE would discourage the use of legacy features that would be best.

Just remove the legacy/ugly methods and packages from the autocomplete process, and warn with recommendations/flag as deprecated. You don't actually have to break anything.

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Re:JDK 8 Release Notes by iSnow on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @04:49PM (#7424872)
Actually, every IDE warns you if you try to use a deprecated method. They show as strikethrough in your source too.

There are things like http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/deprecated-list.htm... and IDE's know about this.

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Re:JDK 8 Release Notes by bradleyjg on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @05:06PM (#7424970)
Problem is Sun^W Oracle hardly ever depreciates anything. There are 21 classes in that list (7 in java.*), out of a total of almost 4000 as of java 7.
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