RFR: 8004748: clean up @build tags in RMI tests

Stuart Marks stuart.marks at oracle.com
Tue Dec 11 23:53:29 UTC 2012


Hi all,

Please review the following gigantic webrev [1] to clean up @build tags in RMI 
tests. Details underlying this change are in the bug report [2].

Briefly, if test classes listed in @build tags are in the wrong order, this 
trips over a jtreg problem that in turn causes a cascade of subsequent tests to 
fail. It's sensitive to the order in which tests run. The problem currently 
occurs in the jdk7u repo. It doesn't happen in jdk8 right now, but as things 
shift around it might occur in the future.

Naturally, I intend to backport this to 7u once it's in 8.

Shifting the @build tags in the test is a workaround for the jtreg bug, but 
jtreg isn't going to be fixed soon. Besides, the @build tags in the RMI tests 
needed to be cleaned up anyway. In particular, consolidating multiple @build 
tags into a single tag speeds up the RMI test run by about 2.5%.

I've also taken the opportunity to do a couple of related cleanups in a few 
places, such as fixing typos, rearranging tags to be in a more consistent 
order, removing unnecessary classes from @build lines, adding necessary ones, 
and in one case renaming a file that was spelled differently from the class 
that it contained. (CheckUnmarshall.java -> CheckUnmarshal.java; there are no 
textual changes to this file.)

Needless to say, all tests pass. In addition, I've run each test individually 
(i.e., with a clean JTwork directory) to ensure that there were no occurrences 
of the library class ordering issue that triggers the jtreg bug.

Thanks,

s'marks


[1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8004748/webrev.0/

[2] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8004748



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