src/java.compiler/share/classes/javax/lang/model/util/AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor8.java

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2011, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2011, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this

@@ -32,30 +32,15 @@
 /**
  * A skeletal visitor for annotation values with default behavior
  * appropriate for the {@link SourceVersion#RELEASE_8 RELEASE_8}
  * source version.
  *
- * <p> <b>WARNING:</b> The {@code AnnotationValueVisitor} interface
- * implemented by this class may have methods added to it in the
- * future to accommodate new, currently unknown, language structures
- * added to future versions of the Java&trade; programming language.
- * Therefore, methods whose names begin with {@code "visit"} may be
- * added to this class in the future; to avoid incompatibilities,
- * classes which extend this class should not declare any instance
- * methods with names beginning with {@code "visit"}.
- *
- * <p>When such a new visit method is added, the default
- * implementation in this class will be to call the {@link
- * #visitUnknown visitUnknown} method.  A new abstract annotation
- * value visitor class will also be introduced to correspond to the
- * new language level; this visitor will have different default
- * behavior for the visit method in question.  When the new visitor is
- * introduced, all or portions of this visitor may be deprecated.
- *
  * @param <R> the return type of this visitor's methods
  * @param <P> the type of the additional parameter to this visitor's methods.
  *
+ * @see <a href="AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor6.html#note_for_subclasses">
+ * <strong>Compatibility note for subclasses</strong></a>
  * @see AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor6
  * @see AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor7
  * @see AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor9
  * @see AbstractAnnotationValueVisitor14
  * @since 1.8