Review request for 6516909: (cl spec) ClassLoader.loadClass()	clarification to indicate it shouldn't be used for array classes
    Mandy Chung 
    mandy.chung at oracle.com
       
    Mon Jan 13 23:02:39 UTC 2014
    
    
  
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/6516909/webrev.00/
This patch is to fix:
6516909: (cl spec) ClassLoader.loadClass() clarification to indicate it 
shouldn't be used for array classes
4932272: (cl) Remove declaration of the unused private method 
ClassLoader.defineClass0
In JDK 5, parameter checking of ClassLoader.loadClass and other methods 
was modified to validate if the given class name is a binary name.  
ClassLoader.loadClass cannot be used to load an array class; instead it 
should use Class.forName.   This patch adds a sentence in the "Binary 
Name" section in the ClassLoader class description to clarify that.
This patch also removes the "sun.lang.ClassLoader.allowArraySyntax" 
system property that was added in JDK 5 to allow existing code to 
workaround the incompatibility issue.  It was disabled by default in JDK 
6.  It's over 7 years and it's time to remove it.  Also remove the 
unused private ClassLoader.defineClass0.
Mandy
[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/compatibility-137462.html
    
    
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