What does it mean for a method to be deprecated

What does it mean for a method to be deprecated

References

Reference NO 1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15081610/what-does-it-mean-for-a-method-to-be-deprecated

Reference NO 2

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15190170/what-does-it-mean-for-a-method-to-be-deprecated-and-how-can-i-resolve-resulting

Reference NO 3

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14627313/what-does-deprecated-mean-on-method-parameters-and-local-variables

Reference NO 4

http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/49982-what-does-this-mean-deprecated.html

Reference NO 5

http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/facilities/documentation/unix/java/tutorial/post1.0/converting/deprecation.html

Reference NO 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation

Reference NO 7

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/deprecated.html

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