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Do methods remain deprecated across releases
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This question comes from Todd:
The Interstage BPM V11 Java docs contains a section: “Deprecated”I am assuming that this section contains only the changes for moving from V10 to V11. Correct?
I guess I am trying to figure out that if I am moving from v10 to v11 do I still need to search the entire list or just some subset of it?
Author: Keith Swenson
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The answer is no, this is not correct. A method will be deprecated, and it will be more than 2 years, and often 3 or 4 years before the method is removed. In version 10, we removed a bunch of methods that had been deprecated in version 7. And yet we kept methods that were deprecated in version 8. I don't know exactly how many methods are currently deprecated, and how many from previous releases, but it is normal for the same methods to be deprecated for multiple releases.
If you are using a deprecated method, you should switch immediately to the alternate method suggested, because it will disappear in a future release. In all cases an alternative is suggested that should work now, so there is no advantage in waiting for them to be removed.
This means you could search a subset of the list, but we don't identify which method have been deprecated since V10, and that would only help you if you were certain that no use was made of the V10 deprecated methods. The safest thing is to search for all deprecated methods.Author: Keith Swenson
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