RFR: 8320786: Remove ThreadGroup.stop

Wed Nov 29 07:05:08 UTC 2023

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.

Marked as reviewed by jpai (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16828#pullrequestreview-1754570972