<AWT Dev> RFR: 8254024: Enhance native libs for AWT and Swing to work with GraalVM Native Image [v3]

[Vojin Jovanovic]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 21:20:16 GMT, Bob Vandette <bobv at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Andrii Rodionov has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains one commit:
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>>   8254024: Enhance native libs for AWT and Swing to work with GraalVM Native Image
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> I'm ok with these changes.  They are no worse than the other STATIC_BUILD changes that already exist in the JDK sources.

@prrace I agree with you that our intrusion is a large maintenance overhead and that it can lead to potential errors. It is worth mentioning two things that could make you feel less scared: 
1) Much of this is code temporary: the code is here until we find a proper way to integrate this information into the JDK itself, without incurring a noticeable maintenance overhead for the JDK maintainers.
2) We test all our code intensively with all the tests provided by the JDK assuring that on every release we pass the same tests that the JDK is passing.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/562