[PATCH] 4851444: Exposing sun.reflect.Reflection#getCallerClass as a public API in Java 8

[Alan Bateman]

On 01/09/2013 09:16, Nick Williams wrote:
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> I believe I have followed all of the procedures as closely as possible. I await feedback and hope for some support on this, so that we can get a public replacement for this method in Java 8. Let me know if you have any questions.
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You may need to check your https server as it doesn't look like it's 
possible to establish a SSL connection ("no common encryption 
algorithms" is one of the errors I see).

Just to set expectations, you are proposing changes in an area that is 
very security sensitive. As your patches are not currently accessible 
then I can't say whether you have taken this into account or not. I 
bring it up because it will have an influence on what we do here. Your 
mail also mentions moving sun.reflect.CallerSensitive to java.lang but 
as I recall, this was an explicit non-goal of JEP 176. So I would 
suggest be prepared for changes to the proposal, also the potential to 
take time to get agreement on any new APIs. My comments are not meant in 
any way to discourage you, rather just to highlight that this is a 
sensitive area.

-Alan