[seam-dev] deprecations on Identity

[Christian Bauer]

On Jun 09, 2008, at 09:31 , Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:

>> I'm totally with you on steering the new developers. I guess we could
>> be like Sun and never remove a deprecated method. Many IDEs just take
>> the deprecated hint too far and make it look near like a compilation
>> error. Perhaps what we really want is just to encourage developers to
>> use credentials, but not force their hand. We can yell at them in the
>> documentation ;)
>
> @Deprecation is the most prominent way of yelling about such changes.
>
> Noone reads docs anywhere.

Yes, and for that reason never use @Deprecated without hints as to  
what to do about it. Which is the actual problem with the current  
changes to Identity.