title: When are API methods marked "deprecated" actually going to go away?
body: <p>I'm code reviewing a change one of my co-workers just did, and he added a bunch of calls to <code>Date.toMonth()</code>, <code>Date.toYear()</code> and other deprecated <code>Date</code> methods.  All these methods were deprecated in JDK 1.1, but he insists that it's ok to use them because they haven't gone away yet (we're using JDK 1.5) and I'm saying they might go away any day now and he should use <code>Calendar</code> methods.</p>
  
  <p>Has Sun/Oracle actually said when these things are going away, or does <code>@deprecated</code> just mean you lose style points?</p>