8022921: Remove experimental Profile attribute

[Mandy Chung]

On 8/14/2013 5:30 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> As part of the Compact Profiles [1] solution we updated the JAR File 
> specification to define a new attribute named "Profile" to allow both 
> main application and library JAR files specify the minimum subset 
> Profile of Java SE that the code in the JAR file requires.
>
> The Profile attribute has been in for more than 6 months now and on 
> reflection it may not be the right thing to do. For starters there has 
> been push-back from folks that have license or other reasons that 
> prevent them from updating the manifest of main application JAR files. 
> Another issue is that the value of the attribute is the minimum subset 
> Profile so there isn't a way to specify that the code requires the 
> full Java SE platform. Another concern is that it might conflict with 
> future direction where we have a way to require standard Java SE or 
> JDK modules. So overall I think the best thing is to remove this 
> attribute, even though it means the solution doesn't no longer has a 
> way to catch mis-matches between the compile time and runtime 
> environments.
>
> The webrev with the changes to remove this attribute are here:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8022921/webrev/
>

This change looks fine and I also think removing this attribute is the 
best thing to do.

Mandy

> It should be easy to remove because it's code deletion.  I plan to 
> update the JEP so that it reflects the updated solution.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan.
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/161