JITWatch in March/April Java magazine

[Chris Newland]

Thanks Martijn,

I'll post this info on the thread.

Regards,

Chris

On Thu, April 9, 2015 10:48, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
>
> I think the strong advice for those using private APIs is to run the
> jdeps tool to see where they are using APIs that will go away / be moved.
> I'd
> then get them to post that list to jigsaw-dev, I guess the root cause of
> some of these issues should also be logged in JBS and fixed :-).
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>
> On 9 April 2015 at 08:54, Chris Newland <cnewland at chrisnewland.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I had an article about the JITWatch AdoptOpenJDK non-Project project
>> published in the current edition of Oracle Java magazine:
>>
>> http://www.oraclejavamagazine-digital.com/javamagazine/march_april_2015
>> #pg34
>>
>>
>> The GitHub project now has 489 stars, 11 contributors, and 66 forks.
>>
>>
>> On a different subject, there's an interesting discussion just started
>> on openjfx-dev about Java 9 which I think is relevant to the Adoption
>> group:
>>
>>
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2015-April/017017.ht
>> ml
>>
>> A few people who are invested in JavaFX seem to be relying on private
>> APIs
>> as workarounds for JavaFX bugs or performance issues and were not
>> pleased to learn that access to these APIs will disappear with
>> modularisation in Java 9.
>>
>>
>> Maybe the Adoption group can help with some awareness initiatives and
>> start to survey what private APIs are in use to help triage any bugs
>> they are working around or any new public APIs that are needed?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>