I have a method in one of my classes that I don't want it to be used any more. Basically it breaks encapsulation, and I now have better methods I want to be used instead.
What's the best practice for signaling that a method is deprecated?
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What about removing it? Unless you're developing an API used by third parties for example. – sp00m Aug 18 '14 at 10:16
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you can use @Deprecated annotation for this – cliffroot Aug 18 '14 at 10:17
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@sp00m There's a little old code still using this method, but I want to make it clear it's not to be used anymore. – Aviv Cohn Aug 18 '14 at 10:17
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Add an @Deprecated annotation to that method and tell witch other classes to use in javadoc.
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