diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaRDDLike.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaRDDLike.scala
index 3df68d4ce508d02d8f46442a05624c38d54b7122..2ba4fb8c18b1dafeb322fa3df5f23c3b859a2270 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaRDDLike.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaRDDLike.scala
@@ -282,8 +282,9 @@ trait JavaRDDLike[T, This <: JavaRDDLike[T, This]] extends Serializable {
 
   /**
    * Return an array that contains all of the elements in this RDD.
+   * @deprecated As of Spark 1.0.0, toArray() is deprecated, use {@link #collect()} instead
    */
-  @deprecated("use collect", "1.0.0")
+  @Deprecated
   def toArray(): JList[T] = collect()
 
   /**