Can we deprecate Path.endsWith(String)?

[Brian Burkhalter]

Thanks for the useful comments.

On Jan 7, 2026, at 4:32 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:

Maybe that is the way to go: just deprecating Path.{ends,starts}With(String) and nothing else.

$0.01 more – I’m OK with that, as long as the javadoc teaches
the toString technique in some discoverable manner.  And not just
via the deprecated methods…?

On Jan 7, 2026, at 4:36 PM, Stuart Marks <stuart.marks at oracle.com> wrote:

So, maybe do (1) and (2) but omit (3). This boils down to just deprecating endsWith(String) and startsWith(String).

We have had a bit of a race condition in this discussion, but at least there appears to be some agreement that deprecation alone (with some javadoc enhancement) is a good way to go.
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