RFR: 8376420: Remove AppContext from javax/swing/ImageIcon.java

[Phil Race]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:24:43 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <serb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Remove per-AppContext MediaTracker from ImageIcon.java
>
> src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/ImageIcon.java line 346:
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>> 344:     }
>> 345: 
>> 346:     private static final MediaTracker MEDIA_TRACKER = new MediaTracker(new Component() {});
> 
> This actually duplicates an existing declaration:
> `protected static final MediaTracker tracker = new MediaTracker(component);`
> I assume it was deprecated in Java 8 because of the AppContext issue? so now we can just uses that one?

Not as far as I can see
https://hg.openjdk.org/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/54a6e22b749c
I think that it was visible to apps was the issue.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29433#discussion_r2730397737