Date Deprecated method

[Sivakumar Janardhanan]

Hello All,

Generally Date class has some deprecated method. If i use the deprecated method in my program which is working fine.
but my doubt is

Can i expect these kind of method in SCJP exam question?



Please Clear my doubts.

Thanks

[Sebastian Janisch]

As far as I know the SCJP does not care about deprecated methods.

You should not use them in your code either, as future releases will not support these anymore.

Use the Calendar class instead.

[Sivakumar Janardhanan]

Thank you Mr.Sebastian

[Nishan Patel]

Can i expect these kind of method in SCJP exam question?

yes, why not. They give you core of Java..

[Ulf Dittmer]

You should not use them in your code either, as future releases will not support these anymore.

The correct phrase is not "will not", but rather "may not". No class or method has ever been removed from JSE, despite deprecations appearing as early as 1997 in Java 1.1

The Date class in particular has not been deprecated because it's faulty -it works just fine- but rather because it doesn't address all the issues one might expect a date/time library to address (like timezones). If those issues are not relevant to your code, then you should feel free to use them IMO. It does make for shorter code than the Calendar class.