java.util.Timer: Is it deprecated?

Question

I read in a comment to this answer and in many other questions about scheduling (sorry, no references) that java.util.Timer is deprecated. I really hope not sin

Answer 1

There is [JDK-8154799] deprecate Timer and TimerTask in the JDK’s bug tracker and in mid-2016 JEP 277 stated that java.util.Timer (and TimerTask) would be deprecated in JDK 9.

Several Java SE APIs will have a @Deprecated annotation added, updated, or removed. Some examples of such changes are listed below.

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• add @Deprecated to java.util.Timer and TimerTask

However, in the JDK 9 release, those classes are not deprecated (deprecated classes can be found in the Deprecated List).