8026398: Can't load jdk.Exported, ClassNotFoundException

[Mandy Chung]

On 10/14/2013 6:39 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> This is an update to the BuildMetaIndex tool, the tool used in the 
> build to generate the meta-index file.
>
> The problem is that the tool assumes that there are at least two 
> levels of package in the name of each type. This causes a problem for 
> jdk.Exported, the annotation that was added as part of JEP 179 [1]. At 
> this time you can't load this class because the entry in the 
> meta-index file is generated as jdk/internal/ rather than jdk/.
>
> The tool is crying out for a re-write but it's a bit late in JDK 8 so 
> I've instead did enough to get it to handle top-level packages in the 
> "known prefix" set. The change mans that when a type in the top-level 
> package is found then it adds a special value ("TOP") into its second 
> package set, this is enough to allow it be handled when emitting the 
> lines for the known prefixes.
>
> The webrev with the proposed change is here:
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8026398/webrev/
>

The change looks okay to me and good enough to handle this jdk.Exported 
case.

Mandy