RFR: 8062194: java.util.jar.Attributes should use insertion-ordered iteration

[Martin Buchholz]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 05/11/2014 00:06, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>
>> :
>> So ... there is the question whether we are tightening the spec for
>> Attributes and its subclasses or only for Attributes.
>> Subclasses of Attribute that would change the order are likely to be
>> very rare (is there a use case?) - I'm OK with those becoming
>> non-spec-compliant subclasses, especially given that they will
>> continue to work just fine in practice.  So in my proposal the
>> tightening applies to subclasses as well.
>
> What you have is okay but I think if I were doing this then I would keep the
> existing wording in the constructor (the update to the class description is
> good). The reason is that the new wording might distract the reader into
> thinking about the iteration order of the given Attributes when it's just
> not interesting here.

I don't much care either way, so the spec change to
Attributes(Attributes) is reverted, as you wish.  Webrev refreshed.