Thread.suspend/resume - any reason not to deprecate forRemoval=true

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Tue Sep 24 16:46:35 UTC 2019


2019/9/24 8:04:55 -0700, alan.bateman at oracle.com:
> Thread.suspend/resume (and the corresponding methods in ThreadGroup) 
> have been deprecated since 1.2 (1998). I haven't see anything use these 
> methods in many years. Would anyone care if their deprecation is changed 
> to forRemoval=true with a view to really removing them in the future? 
> Just to clear, I'm only asking about the Thread/ThreadGroups APIs, we 
> have to keep suspend/resume support in the debugger and tool APIs.

Go for it!

- Mark


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