RFR: 8300891: Deprecate for removal javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthLookAndFeel.load(URL url) [v2]

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:21:24 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> SynthLookAndFeel.load(URL) is problematic because applications need to trust the URL.
>> As documented in the bug report there are alternative mechanisms and JDK itself has not used this for the two Synth based L&Fs : Nimbus and GTK.
>> So deprecating - for removal - and adding warnings now in the docs is appropriate.
>
> Phil Race has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   8300891

src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/plaf/synth/SynthLookAndFeel.java line 627:

> 625:      * using a resource co-located with the application or by
> 626:      * providing a {@code SynthStyleFactory} are preferred.
> 627:      * Consequently this method is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

We probably can use "@see" tag to link the alternate preferred method `load(InputStream input, Class<?> resourceBase)` since this is going to be deprecated

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12175