Proposing projects for OpenJDK

[Mario Torre]

2014-02-25 16:22 GMT+01:00 dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>:
> On 12.02.2014 12:06, Mario Torre wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 14:49 +0000, Richard Warburton wrote:
>>
>>> I can see jitwatch having value in being part of openjdk itself, since it
>>> is directly related to openjdk.
>>
>>
>> Resending with the correct email :)
>>
>> I would be great to have JitWatch in OpenJDK, but I don't know if this
>> is really possible, since it's based on JavaFX, which is not part of the
>> core API and not distributed with OpenJDK, only with proprietary JDK.
>
>
> OpenJFX is an OpenJDK Project, so I don't think that would necessarily be an
> issue.

Having JitWatch as an OpenJDK project, definitely no issues, but
having JitWatch being part of OpenJDK (that is, distributed like jhat,
for instance, which was I think what we were discussing), then yes,
because it would require an external component that is not part of
core the API.

Cheers,
Mario

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