Time to put a stop to Thread.stop?

[Brian Goetz]

If we can't deprecate this, we might as well deprecate @Deprecated.

On May 14, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:

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> I would like to broach the subject of pulling out the implementation of Thread.stop(Throwable), maybe suspend/resume later. By "pulling out" I mean changing it to unconditionally throw UnsupportedOperationException.
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> As we all know, these methods have been deprecated since 1998 so that's 15 years to design out any need for these methods. That said, I periodically come across code that uses no-arg Thread.stop(). David Holmes mentioned to me recently that he came across a usage in the recent past too. I don't think I've ever come across code using Thread.stop(Throwable) and this one is arguably the most dangerous of the group.
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> So I'm curious if anyone has come across a Thread.stop(Throwable) usage in recent times. Clearly changing this would be a significant change but the real impact might be close to zero. If we decide this is the right thing to do then there is a bit of detail to work out, that's for later.
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> -Alan.