<AWT Dev> Legacy Apple com.apple.eio.FileManager (in module java.desktop) removed at jdk 16?

[Philip Race]

Many of the com.apple APIs were obsoleted in JDK 9 with 
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/272

We (you and I) even discussed this and the absence from there of 
FileManager 3 1/2 years ago
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2017-September/013120.html

It was left off that you wrote here
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2017-September/013131.html

 > All right. If RFE is in fact the correct way to go in resolving the 
status of the code I will try to figure out how to do that.

And you did in fact file such an RFE 
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8187981 but unfortunately it seems
to be in "other-libs" and I don't know who even looks at that category 
and don't know what really belongs there.
core-libs would have been better. I've moved it but it probably needs 
more than that to get action.

-phil.



On 3/18/21 2:20 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
>
>> On Mar 18, 2021, at 3:29 PM, Philip Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think this is because of https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8256299
>>
>> JDK 16   release notes here : http://jdk.java.net/16/release-notes
>>
> I think I ran into a couple related issues. I had a check to see if default Toolkit gave me a Sun class for some functionality VirtualBox seemed to have issues with. I turned it off. I’ll still have to test to see if that gives me VirtualBox issues.
>
> For com.apple.eio.FileManager I personally would argue that it was a public not a internal API. It was meant to provide some Mac specific file niceties to developers.
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> I had some code on Github based on the com.apple.eio.FileManager code that I think the macport had as Oracle class exception. I think I reworked it based on a Mac nio FileSystem I did. I can probably with some work get to work for my application. Maybe eve possibly get it to work fairly easily for other apps. If this change is permanent.
>
> It’s possible you might hear from some other developers who have older Mac java code that made use of this API.
>

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