[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Internal API usage: sun.font.FontUtilities

[Alexander Scherbatiy]

  Resending the question about sun.font.FontUtilities to 2d-dev alias.

  Thanks,
  Alexandr.

On 7/27/2015 4:24 PM, Andrej Golovnin wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> in our application we make use of
>
> sun.font.FontUtilities.fontSupportsDefaultEncoding(Font)
> sun.font.FontUtilities.getCompositeFontUIResource(Font)
>
> to obtain an instance of CompositeFont.
>
> Best regards,
> Andrej Golovnin
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Alexander Scherbatiy
> <alexandr.scherbatiy at oracle.com> wrote:
>> According to the JEP 200: The Modular JDK (see
>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/200)
>> we expect that the standard Java SE modules will not export any internal
>> packages.
>>
>> It means that classes from internal packages (like sun.swing) will not be
>> accessible.
>>
>> For example:
>>    sun.swing.FilePane
>>    sun.swing.SwingUtilities2
>>    sun.swing.sun.swing.plaf.synth.SynthIcon
>> and others.
>>
>>
>> Please, let us known if you are using the internal Swing API and it is not
>> possible to replace it by public API.
>>
>> There are some known requests:
>>
>>    JDK-8132119 Provide public API for text related methods in SwingUtilities2
>>      https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132119
>>
>>    JDK-8132120 Provide public API for screen menu bar support on MacOS
>>      https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132120
>>
>>    JDK-6274842 RFE: Provide a means for a custom look and feel to use desktop
>> font antialiasing settings.
>>      https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6274842
>>
>>
>> If you don't know if you use these types (because you use 3rd party jars)
>> you can use the JDK 8 "jdeps" tool to find such dependencies :-
>>
>> ~/jdk1.8/bin/jdeps
>> Usage: jdeps <options> <classes...>
>> where <classes> can be a pathname to a .class file, a directory, a JAR
>> file, or a fully-qualified class name
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alexandr.
>>