Integrated: 8320786: Remove ThreadGroup.stop

[Alan Bateman]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:58:29 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> ThreadGroup.stop was deprecated since JDK 1.2, deprecated for removal in Java 18, and re-specified/degraded to throw UnsupportedOperationException unconditionally in Java 20. Early in Java 23 seems a fine time to finally remove this method. Corpus analysis of 176 million classes in 485k artifacts found residual usages in 14 artifacts, so not many.
> 
> It would be nice if we could remove Thread.stop at the same time. Sadly there are still quite a few artifacts containing code (and in some cases tests) that reference this method. We will have to come back to this in some future release.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 86623aa4
Author:    Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/86623aa41d09212e4bd366d620d1df9fd16acf93
Stats:     17 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 17 del; 0 mod

8320786: Remove ThreadGroup.stop

Reviewed-by: rriggs, dholmes, jpai

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16828