Classes on the stack trace (was: getElementClass/StackTraceElement, was: @CallerSensitive public API, was: sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass)

[Joseph Darcy]

On 7/29/2013 9:31 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 29/07/2013 19:17, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>
>> Your phrasing makes me think I missed something: is the 
>> Reflection.getCallerClass() method being removed due to some 
>> technical issue that it can only be somehow emulated as a 
>> workaround?  Or is it just a general cleanup effort?
>>
> The sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass(int) method was removed as 
> part of JEP 176 [1].
>
> -Alan.
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/176
>

And as a sun.* method, this was officially outside of the exported 
interface of the JDK and not something that should be expected to work 
if called from outside of the JDK:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/faq-sun-packages-142232.html

-Joe