J2SE est mort, vive Java SE!

[Omair Majid]

* Sean Mullan <sean.mullan at oracle.com> [2013-11-27 12:16]:
> On 11/27/2013 10:46 AM, Wang Weijun wrote:
> >>What security libs have j2 in their names?
> >
> >libj2gss.so etc.
> 
> Any idea what the compatibility risk of removing the "2" would be?
> 
> This seems less prominent because it doesn't say "j2se", "j2re" or
> "j2sdk" but I think it would be fine to rename these if the risk is
> low.

Out of curiosity, what would be the replacement prefix for this (and
other native libraries)? Just 'j' instead of 'j2'? A name like libgss.so
is probably not a good idea, since then using the gss implementation
library (or another native library) which could have the prefix-less
name becomes problematic.

As a concrete case, an OpenJDK patch I am maintaining [1] tries to use
the system libjpeg instead of the one bundled with OpenJDK. The bundled
copy gets built with the code from upstream libjpeg as well as JNI
bits that are specific to OpenJDK. So I have to split it out into a
OpenJDK-specific library that links to the real libjpeg. I went with a
'java' prefix for the OpenJDK-specific JNI library, but I would like to
know if there is a consistent standard I should try and use. I am going
to try and push this patch upstream, if possible.

Thanks,
Omair

[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/java-1.8.0-openjdk.git/tree/system-libjpeg.patch#n191

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