Description Jason Yip 2003-05-13 19:19:01 EDT

Essentially Rename Method for framework/libraries.  Can't just do a normal 
Rename Method because there may be external dependencies on the old method name.

public void oldName() {}

should become

public Object newName() { ... }

/**
 * @deprecated
 */
public Object oldName() {
  return newName();
}

Obviously there are also more sophisticated scenarios with signature changes 
and package changes if renaming classes, etc.