RFR: 8346986: Remove ASM from java.base

[Alan Bateman]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 12:49:40 GMT, Adam Sotona <asotona at openjdk.org> wrote:

> There are no more consumers of ASM library except for hotspot tests.
> This patch moves ASM library from java.base module to the hotspot test libraries location and fixes the tests.
> 
> Please review.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam

Moving it to test/hotspot/jtreg is initially surprising, I assumed it would move to test/lib. Did you choose the hotspot tree as only tests in hotspot/jtreg use it and you didn't want to add or change the @library tag on these tests?

The other thing is the package name, maybe it should move back to org.objectweb.asm as it won't be a JDK internal package.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22946#issuecomment-2576150512