jdk 1.4 problem

[Tal Tal]

hi everyone
i have a project, and i used to compile it with jdk 1.3
now i wanted to upgrade to jdk 1.4, and so when i try to compile it, it shows a warning about a method called "setNextFocusableComponent", by what i understood it doesent support this method anymore,
my question is what method should i use instead?
thanks

[Carlos Failde]

According to the api
setNextFocusableComponent
has been deprecated in favour of FocusTravesalPolicy. The methods of java.awt.Container of which javax.swing.JComponent is a subclass include setFocusTraversalPolicy(). Why don't you give that a try?
[ March 12, 2004: Message edited by: Carlos Failde ]

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

To make this more explicit: when an API method is "deprecated", this basically means that there's a new, better alternative and, while the method still exists, you should change your code to use the new method if possible.
Note that JDK 1.2, introduced in 1998, was the first JDK to introduce the notion of deprecated APIs in Java. That was six years ago. To this date, no deprecated APIs have ever actually been removed from the JDK -- so there's no imminent danger that if you use a deprecated API, your program will stop working in the next point release.

[Tal Tal]

thanks, i'll check it out