[Springframework-developer] method deprecation and backward compatibility in 1.2

[Darren D. <da...@da...>]

What's the official line on deprecating methods or retaining complete
backward compatibility in 1.2?

Example:=20
I've made changes to AbstractXsltView to allow it work with Source
implementations rather than Nodes which is more flexible (see SPR-730),
but I've kept the createDomNode() method for BC.

Problem is, subclasses MUST override/implement one of the methods only,
but I can't make either of them abstract in the superclass to enforce
this unless I remove createDomNode and make the new createXsltSource
abstract.  This would break existing projects that dropped
spring-1.2.jar into them.

For now, I've deprecated createDomNode but I wondered if we have an
agreed policy on what 1.2 means in terms of BC / deprecation.

Cheers,

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Darren Davison
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