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I do not like RESTful APIs anymore and dont understand why nobody agrees with me

But all giants like Microsoft or Google or Facebook design RESTful APIs and therefore I am hesitating to go my own way. Having worked at one of these places you mentioned, I can assure you that while ...
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Do we need APIs to just access databases?

If your application is purely a server side rendered application with no need to integrate with external systems, then a http api will add no value. You should still have an api, the internal model ...
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What is the best way to comment a deprecated class in Java?

As @Tihamer says deprecation should be documented via @deprecated and an additional Javadoc. In addition to using the @deprecated Javadoc-Tag, see the official recommendation to use @link or @see: ...
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