RFR [9] 8044773: Refactor jdk.net API so that it can be moved out of the base module

[Chris Hegarty]

On 27 Apr 2016, at 17:27, Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:

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>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 2:04 AM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> This works out quite nice.  Webrev updated in-place:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8044773/jdk/
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> One comment on the qualified exports of sun.security.action.GetPropertyAction to jdk.net module.  This is a simple utility method used only in a couple places in jdk.net.  I would suggest to change to usage to call System::getProperty with doPrivileged and no need to add the qualified export from java.base.  

Agreed. Removed. Webrev updated in-place:
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8044773/jdk/

> As a side note, Sean and I and a couple others are discussing that the security team may want to have recommended best practices around doPrivileged and utility methods like this.

That would be good.

-Chris.