SONAR-14908 Deprecate 'RulesDefinitionXmlLoader' in the Sonar plugin API

diff --git a/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/server/rule/RulesDefinitionXmlLoader.java b/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/server/rule/RulesDefinitionXmlLoader.java
index 034ee858dfb388cee5bbc0bef3144b352c01ab30..22761952985320f7766ef77f61f1b9e64d3ebcfd 100644 (file)
--- a/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/server/rule/RulesDefinitionXmlLoader.java
+++ b/sonar-plugin-api/src/main/java/org/sonar/api/server/rule/RulesDefinitionXmlLoader.java
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ import static org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.trim;
  *
  * @see org.sonar.api.server.rule.RulesDefinition
  * @since 4.3
+ * @deprecated since 9.0. Use the sonar-check-api to annotate rule classes instead of loading the metadata from XML files. See {@link org.sonar.check.Rule}.
  */
 @ServerSide
 @ComputeEngineSide