RFR: 8013380 - Removal of stack walk to find resource bundle breaks Glassfish startup

[Jim Gish]

On 04/30/2013 04:29 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 30/04/2013 17:48, Jim Gish wrote:
>> Please review http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jgish/TestRB.2/ 
>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ejgish/TestRB.2/>
>>
>> This fixes a regression caused by the removal of the search of the 
>> call stack for resource bundles by java.util.logging.  We have added 
>> a single-level search up the stack, i.e. just the immediate caller's 
>> ClassLoader, as an additional alternative to the specified method of 
>> using the thread context classloader if set and the system 
>> classloader if the TCCL is not set.  This is intended to handle cases 
>> such as Glassfish or other OSGi-based apps/3rd-party libs for which 
>> setting the TCCL is not feasible.
> It's unfortunate that the stack walk was masking this issue. Are you 
> planning an update to the javadoc to reconcile the spec vs. impl 
> difference?
>
Yes
> -Alan.

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