RFR: 8280047: Broken link to Swing Connection document from javax.swing package docs [v3]

[Alexey Ivanov]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:48:27 GMT, Prasanta Sadhukhan <psadhukhan at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/package-info.java line 143:
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>>> 141:  *     at the Java Developer Connection <sup>SM</sup></li>
>>> 142:  *     <li><a href="https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-foundation-classes.html"
>>> 143:  *     target="_top">Java Foundation Classes (JFC)</a> home page</li>
>> 
>> Hm, I think this page is too outdated by now. It talks about JDK 1.4.0. It's completely irrelevant for JDK 19, is it?
>> 
>> Shall this link be dropped altogether?
>
> Maybe we can use https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/foundation-classes-faq.html

Yeah, this looks better. JFC is Swing, so the FAQ page uses an outdated term. Related links at the bottom of the page leads to J2SE 1.4.2 as a popular downloads.

Thus, I'm for removing the link.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7104