RFR: 8352748: Remove com.sun.tools.classfile from the JDK

Wed Apr 9 10:35:31 UTC 2025

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 20:34:09 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

> With all dependencies of com.sun.tools.classfile in the JDK converted to the ClassFile API, we can remove this legacy library for release 25 like how we removed ASM.
> 
> Testing: built locally, running tier 1-3 tests
> 
> Don't know why, but GitHub is redundantly displaying changes that are already in #24212.

Build changes look trivially fine.

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Marked as reviewed by ihse (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24528#pullrequestreview-2753004950