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Re: track usage of deprecated classes in our library

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On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 4:36:21 AM UTC-7, mike wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We have quite a number of users of our public API. We have deprecated a great number of our methods since they are inefficient and error prone. New ones are already in place. But as you all know we cannot just remove the old since we do not know if they are used.
> 
> So we need to know which deprecated methods that are still called and hopefully provide ip and username so we can contact them to assist in replacing to new method.
> 
> Is there a mechanism in java which can accomplish this? Anyone with the experience of this? All input is greatly appreciated.

Deprecate the methods in the first release of the new library after the changes. One or two versions later, remove the deprecated methods from the library.

Track who contacts you about the missing methods.

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Lew

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track usage of deprecated classes in our library mike <mikaelpetterson@hotmail.com> - 2017-08-29 04:36 -0700
  Re: track usage of deprecated classes in our library Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-08-29 08:09 -0400
  Re: track usage of deprecated classes in our library Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 05:19 -0700
  Re: track usage of deprecated classes in our library Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-08-29 20:41 -0400
  Re: track usage of deprecated classes in our library lewbloch@gmail.com - 2017-08-30 14:17 -0700

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