Good essay by Steve Northover (the Father of SWT) on why @deprecated is a lie. Once an API is public you’re committed. As I mentioned before, @deprecated is at best an idle threat. Breaking running code by removing public methods or classes is rarely, if ever, acceptable.
Note: in another post, Steve refutes the rumor that the name Eclipse was chosen to offend Sun. If true, didn’t someone eventually realize how the name might be perceived by Sun? And if so, they decided it was okay?
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