Review Request: JDK-8173608: Separate JDK management agent from java.management module

[Erik Joelsson]

On 2017-01-31 17:04, Mandy Chung wrote:
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>> On Jan 31, 2017, at 12:20 AM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Are all the libraries added to LIBS still needed for this breakout lib? And are all of them still needed for libmanagement.so from which this was split out?
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> Good catch.  I updated Lib-jdk.management.agent.gmk with:
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>      LIBS := $(JDKLIB_LIBS), \
>      LIBS_windows := $(WIN_JAVA_LIB) advapi32.lib, \
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> We should examine the native code in both java.management and jdk.management and I suspect the makefile would need cleanup.  Are you okay to follow up the makefile as a separate issue?  As the native code in jdk.management.agent, it can be converted to use NIO 2 and hope to get to it in a near future so that jdk.management.agent will have java code only.
The adjustment proposed here is fine with me.

/Erik