[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] <AWT Dev> Review Request for 6879044

[Anthony Petrov]

On 09/23/2009 03:41 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> If AWT initialized the loggers lazily, and only did it when the 
>> logging is actually enabled (checking for some system property, or 
>> whatever other way), would we still be statically linked to the 
>> j.u.logging package in case of a regular client application that does 
>> not use/enable logging explicitly?
> Yes, minimally they should be created lazily (this is one of the 
> suggestions that Mandy listed in 6880089). That would at least avoid 
> initializing all these loggers. The static dependency remains.

Ah, I just looked over the PlatformLogger code, and now I see it uses 
reflection to access the j.u.logging.* classes. Now this point is clear.

Have it been discussed whether that is feasible to modify the VM in 
order to eliminate the static dependency if a particular object never 
gets initialized?

It just looks kind of artificial to create such proxy classes. I bet 
we'll need plenty of them for other modules. Won't the code be messed up 
too much?

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best regards,
Anthony