Rather than adding all these annotations I would prefer that you do
what Stuart did with the boxed primitive constructor deprecation
where he disabled the deprecation checking on the desktop module
until we can clean it up. That one was done within about a week and
should be in dev in a few days .
Phil and other client reviewers,
Please review this change from core libs which impacts client libs
implementations. In brief, deprecating a method in core reflection
requires uses of that method to have a @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
annotation. The typical way to minimize the scope of th