Deprecate ConstructorUtils.ConstructorUtils()

Author: garydgregory

src/changes/changes.xml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Javadoc is missing its Overview page.</action>
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Remove -nouses directive from maven-bundle-plugin. OSGi package imports now state 'uses' definitions for package imports, this doesn't affect JPMS (from org.apache.commons:commons-parent:80).</action>
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate BeanUtils.BeanUtils().</action>
+      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate ConstructorUtils.ConstructorUtils().</action>
       <!-- ADD -->
       <!-- UPDATE -->
       <action dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Gary Gregory">Bump org.apache.commons:commons-parent from 78 to 81.</action>

src/main/java/org/apache/commons/beanutils/ConstructorUtils.java

@@ -42,6 +42,16 @@ public class ConstructorUtils {
     /** An empty object array */
     private static final Object[] EMPTY_OBJECT_ARRAY = {};
 
+    /**
+     * Deprecated, all methods are static.
+     *
+     * @deprecated Will be private in 2.0.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public ConstructorUtils() {
+        // empty
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns a constructor with single argument.
      * @param <T> the type of the constructor