Deprecate Validate.Validate().

Author: garydgregory

src/changes/changes.xml

@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
     <action issue="LANG-771"  type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Ryan Holmes, Makarand Hinge, Gary Gregory">DateUtils.ceiling does not behave correctly for dates on the boundaries.</action>
     <action issue="LANG-1819" type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Partha Protim Paul, Gary Gregory">[LANG-] Javadoc ArrayUtils.removeAll() null input behavior #1614.</action>
     <action issue="LANG-1813" type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Ivan Ponomarev, Gary Gregory">ArrayUtils#hashCode() Javadoc incorrectly states “null returns zero” (actual result is 629).</action>
+    <action                   type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate Validate.Validate().</action>
     <!-- ADD -->
     <action                   type="add" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Add JavaVersion.JAVA_27.</action>
     <action                   type="add" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Add SystemUtils.IS_JAVA_27.</action>

src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/Validate.java

@@ -1274,7 +1274,10 @@ public static void validState(final boolean expression, final String message, fi
 
     /**
      * Constructs a new instance. This class should not normally be instantiated.
+     *
+     * @deprecated Will be made private in 4.0. Use static methods.
      */
+    @Deprecated
     public Validate() {
     }
 }