<Beans Dev> Approved: 6899147: java.beans.MetaData should not require JDBC to be present

[Sergey Malenkov]

Hi Alan,

The fix looks good for me.
I approve.

Thanks,
SAM

Alan Bateman wrote:
> Sergey,
> 
> As we discussed today, the persistent delegate for java.sql.Timestamp in 
> java.beans.Metadata creates an undesirable dependency on JDBC. I'd like 
> to change this to use reflection so as to eliminate the static 
> dependency. This doesn't change anything at runtime in that this 
> persistent delegate will only be loaded if the type is a Timestamp. I've 
> put the webrev with the change here:
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/6899147/webrev.00/
> 
> For testing, I've run the tests in test/java/beans/XMLEncoder - the 
> java_sql_Timestamp.java test in particular, provides good coverage.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Alan.
>