Deprecated Methods
Table 11-2 purposely leaves out deprecated methods from the original AWT. Many component methods in the original version of the AWT were named inconsistently. For example, to get the font associated with a component, you would invoke getFont(); however, to get the bounds of a component, you would invoke bounds(). As a result, it was difficult to remember which methods were preceded with get/set and which were not. Fortunately, the 1.1 release of the AWT remedied the inconsistent naming, and as a result many of the old methods are now deprecated, meaning they will no longer be supported in subsequent releases of the AWT. In fact, javac comes with a -deprecation option, which issues warnings when a deprecated method is used. ...
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