Why is the Bigdecimal(double d) construction still around?

Question

I\'ve noticed substantial pain over this constructor (even here on Stack Overflow). People use it even though the documentation clearly states:

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Answer 1

Deprecation is deprecated. Parts of APIs are only marked deprecated in exceptional cases.

So, run FindBugs as part of your build process. FindBugs has a detector PlugIn API and is also open source (LGPL, IIRC).