Java: De-deprecated-ing Tools

Question

Once a method is marked as deprecated, are there any tools which replace these methods with non-deprecated workarounds ?

Answer 1

If you would like to do this automatically - no.

The tool is called a programmer.

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The reason is that the tools would need to profoundly understand both the deprecation, the 'un-deprecation' , your program and the target programming language.

For instance, java.util.Date.setMonth is deprecated in favour of Calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, int month).

That is a non-trivial change to apply, since it requires replacing object instantiations, method calls, taking into account synchronisation. Actually nightmarish to do automatically.