8043753: Drop javax.transaction from compact2

[David Holmes]

Hi Alan,

This change looks okay to me.

But the bug synopsis and description should clarify that it drops 
javax.transaction from compact2 and compact3, as you are moving it to 
the full JRE.

Thanks,
David

On 30/05/2014 10:29 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> This is a proposed change to the set of API packages in the compact2 and
> compact3 Profiles that we defined in Java SE 8 / JDK 8.
>
> The background to this is that compact2 includes the subset of the Java
> Transaction API (JTA) that Java SE defines. JTA isn't usually
> interesting for small devices but JDBC is and the JBDC API has API
> dependencies on a number of XA types defined in javax.transaction.xa.
> We've been looking at this again in the context of of moving to a truly
> modular JDK. For a modular JDK it would be highly desirable to have a
> JDBC module that has as few transitively dependencies as possible. The
> problem with a dependence on JTA is that the 3 exceptions in
> javax.transaction are RemoteException types and are only useful for
> RMI-IIOP. So we'd like to split these so that javax.transaction can live
> closer to CORBA and have javax.transaction.xa be closer to JDBC. In
> order to get there then compact2 (and thus compact3) will need to
> change. The compatibility impact of this is close is very low as it is
> highly unlikely that applications running on embedded systems would be
> making use of these 3 exceptions.
>
> The build changes are simple, it just changes
> PROFILE_2_RTJAR_INCLUDE_PACKAGES to include the xa package and then
> updates FULL_JRE_RTJAR_INCLUDE_TYPES to ensure that javax.transaction is
> included in the full JRE/JDK builds.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Alan.
>
>
> diff --git a/make/profile-rtjar-includes.txt
> b/make/profile-rtjar-includes.txt
> --- a/make/profile-rtjar-includes.txt
> +++ b/make/profile-rtjar-includes.txt
> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
>       java/sql \
>       javax/rmi/ssl \
>       javax/sql \
> -    javax/transaction \
> +    javax/transaction/xa \
>       javax/xml \
>       org/w3c \
>       org/xml/sax \
> @@ -223,7 +223,8 @@
>       javax/management/remote/rmi/_RMIConnection_Stub.class \
>       javax/management/remote/rmi/_RMIServerImpl_Tie.class \
>       javax/management/remote/rmi/_RMIServer_Stub.class \
> -    javax/rmi/*.class
> +    javax/rmi/*.class \
> +    javax/transaction/*.class
>
>   FULL_JRE_RTJAR_EXCLUDE_TYPES :=
>
>