JDK 9: Pitfalls for the Unwary

Curious as to why, out of all the hundreds of deprecated calls in the JDK, it was those six methods that got removed.

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One wonders what the point of working so hard for backwards compatibility is if they&#x27;re just going to introduce breaking changes anyways.