Description Peter Burka 2002-05-31 17:43:14 EDT

Build F1

Consider an interface

interface I {
	/**
	 * @deprecated
	 */
	public void foo();
}

If I implement this interface in

public class Foo implements I {
	public void foo() {}
}

I get a warning that Foo overrides deprecated method foo() from I.

This warning should not be reported, since I have no choice but to implement 
the method! If I did not, I would get an error.

I believe that it's reasonable to warn about implementing a deprecated 
interface, or for overriding a non-abstract deprecated method, but not for 
overriding a deprecated abstract method.

(javac seems to have the same behaviour as Eclipse, at least if the classes 
are in separate files).