Description Michael Illgner 2002-11-19 09:33:59 EST

Short example :
We are publishing an (very simple ;-)API like interface

public interface Old {
    public static final int Constant = 42;
}

Due to cosmetical reasons and code conventions, this interface
is renamed to INew

public interface INew {
    public static final int Constant = 42;
}

Since we do not want to break old clients completly, we define the old
interface in terms of the new and deprecate it :

/**
 * @deprecated 
 */
public interface Old extends INew {
}

Now our "client" :

public class Test {
    
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        System.out.println(INew.Constant);
        System.out.println(Old.Constant);
    }
}

The eclipse compiler does not recgonize the deprecated use of the interface Old,
but the standard javac does ...