RFR: 8000404 java.lang.annotation.Native

[Kelly O'Hair]

Looks good to me.

-kto

On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

> See http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8000404/webrev/
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> A while back, we added a new annotation javax.tools.GenerateNativeHeader, to mark classes that contained constants of interest to native code, such that tools, like javac with the -h option, could generate know to generate native header files.   Based on our experience in using the new annotation, we have decided to change to using a different annotation, with the same purpose:  java.lang.annotation.Native, to be used to annotate the constants themselves.
> 
> This review is for step 1 of a 3 step process to replace javax.tools.GenerateNativeHeader with java.lang.annotation.Native.
> 
> This first step is to add the new annotation.
> 
> Separately, the goal is to replacing existing uses of @GenerateNativeHeader with @Native.   Then, we will remove javax.tools.GenerateNativeHeader.
> 
> -- Jon