<AWT Dev> [9] Review request for 8154539 Examine the desktop module's use of sun.misc.SoftCache

[Phil Race]

Alexander ... I am concurrently deleting GThreadHelper (see webrev I 
just sent out)
  which is covered by a separate bug so please revert that part of the fix.

-phil.

On 5/11/2016 2:43 PM, Alexander Scherbatiy wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Could you review the updated fix:
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alexsch/8154539/webrev.01
>
>   - The test/com/sun/jdi/ReferrersTest.java test is updated to use 
> sun.awt.SoftCache
>   - The sun.misc.GThreadHelper class is moved to the sun.awt package 
> in the java.desktop module
>
>   The jdk.unsupported dependency was removed from the 
> src/java.desktop/share/classes/module-info.java file.
>   The sun.misc.GThreadHelper class is called by JNI and may be it does 
> not require the declared dependency to the jdk.unsupported module. In 
> any case it seems better to move the  GThreadHelper class to the 
> java.desktop module.
>
>   Thanks,
>   Alexandr.
>
>
> On 12/05/16 00:15, Mandy Chung wrote:
>>> On May 11, 2016, at 1:07 PM, Alexander Scherbatiy 
>>> <alexandr.scherbatiy at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Could you review the fix:
>>>   bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8154539
>>>   webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alexsch/8154539/webrev.00
>>>
>>>   This is a request from the jigsaw team to get rid of the 
>>> dependency to jdk.unsupported module from the java.desktop module.
>>>   The fix moves the sun.misc.SoftCache class to the sun.awt package 
>>> in the java.desktop module.
>> Looks okay.  Moving sun.misc.SoftCache to java.desktop is fine.
>>
>> test/com/sun/jdi/ReferrersTest.java references sun.misc.SoftCache.  I 
>> don’t know whether this test finds sun.misc.SoftCache in the 
>> reference graph at all.  I suggest to update the test to check 
>> “sun.awt.SoftCache” instead and file a bug to the serviceability to 
>> follow up if that check is needed or not.
>>
>> Mandy
>