Not a topic for the discuss list (which I've bcc'ed), so moved to core-libs David Holmes Behrang Saeedzadeh said the following on 02/10/11 16:49:

In particular, I am referring to Integer.getInteger, Boolean.getBoolean, etc. series of methods. These methods are API smells, confusing to new users, and can lead to all sorts of bugs. Shouldn't we start deprecating these methods?

Cheers, Behrang Saeedzadeh http://www.behrang.org