RFR: 8356049: Need a simple way to play back a sound clip [v5]

[Phil Race]

On Fri, 16 May 2025 21:07:49 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <serb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > The API calls are best protected this way just like the ones in AudioClip were. There's no advantage in removing them.
> > But previously it was protected by methods in the non-public JavaSoundAudioClip, which extended AudioClip. Now SoundClip wraps JavaSoundAudioClip with the same results. Moreover, previously synchronized was not part of the public API, now it is.
> 
> One of the benefits to remove them is that it will not be possible to abuse synchronized(SoundClip) which will block execution of its methods.

That is no different than with the applet AudioClip .. it doesn't matter whether it is in the API doc, they are all synchronized. And I don't know why an app would hold a lock that prevents itself from working.
We can later - meaning in another release - remove synchronized if there's a compelling reason to do so, but I would have thought it better to be explicit about this - unlike applet AudioClip.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24991#discussion_r2093722139