CSR for Class-File API (Preview)

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Wed May 24 15:57:34 UTC 2023


> In addition, what's the rationale for putting all these new contents
> under java.lang instead of java, like java.classfile vs
> java.lang.classfile?

Largely historical.  Imagine "lang" meant "platform"; this is where 
low-level platform classes have historically gone (e.g., 
java.lang.invoke, java.lang.constant, neither of which have anything to 
do with the language.)


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