Alpha (driver-core 5.4.0 API) (original) (raw)

Signifies that a public API element is in the early stages of development, subject to incompatible changes, or even removal, in a future release and may lack some intended features. An API bearing this annotation may contain known issues affecting functionality, performance, and stability. It is also exempt from any compatibility guarantees made by its containing library.

It is inadvisable for applications to use Alpha APIs in production environments or for libraries (which get included on users' CLASSPATHs, outside the library developers' control) to depend on these APIs. Alpha APIs are intended for experimental purposes only.

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  The reason an API element is marked with Alpha.