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

[Michael Hall]

> On Mar 18, 2021, at 6:35 PM, Philip Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Many of the com.apple APIs were obsoleted in JDK 9 with http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/272 <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 <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 <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 <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.
> 

I remember talking about it and at least temporarily kept it from getting eliminated. Appreciated that. I don’t remember the RFE. 

Google 
com.apple.eio.FileManager 2020
19,300 hits.
How many are active current actual uses I don’t know. 

I have a sort of involved workaround I will go ahead on. 

Up to you if you think there’s not enough use left to continue providing it. But it is not internal if that’s why it’s gone.

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