Adding asm to JDK 8

[Brian Goetz]

The hope there is that JAX-WS can convert over to / certify on the 
bundled ASM, and then we can get rid of their old copy.  Same process as 
removing APT; they have to do some work first.

On 2/3/2012 6:48 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 03/02/2012 05:08, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
>> Jim,
>>
>> Do you plan to remove one already existing in the
>> rt.jar (it comes from jax-ws)?
>>
>> com.sun.xml.internal.ws.org.objectweb.asm
>>
>> Do you have permission to include one particular version or
>> plan to sync it regularly?
>>
>> -Dmitry
>>
> This is a good point. Once ASM is bedded down then it doesn't make any
> sense to continue to include the ASM subset in the JAX-WS bundle.
>
> -Alan.
>