RFR: 8043306 - Provide a replacement for the API that allowed to listen for LogManager configuration changes

[Daniel Fuchs]

On 9/10/14 1:25 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 10/09/2014 10:49, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please find below a proposed patch for
>>
>> 8043306 - Provide a replacement for the API that allowed to listen
>>           for LogManager configuration changes
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8043306
>>
>> Proposed Patch:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8043306/webrev.00/
>>
> It would be nice if ConfigurationListener could be an interface. I
> realize this might mean looking again at the security concerns in this
> area again to see if we could get away without requiring a construction
> time permission check. Clearly if it could be an interface then it begs
> the question as to why it's just not a Runnable but that probably means
> yet more effort to figure out the right security and whether the access
> control context should be recorded when registering.

Given that both Paul & Alan have indicated that they would prefer
to use interfaces for listeners, I have been working on a
version that uses 'Runnable'.

Thanks to Paul & Alan for all the suggestions that went into
this new patch (especially for refining the spec and suggesting
a nice way to rewrite addConfigurationListener() using lambdas)!

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8043306/webrev.03/

best regards,

-- daniel