[9] RFR: JDK-8054548: JAX-WS tools need to updated to work with modular image

[Miroslav Kos]

On 11/09/14 14:39, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 11/09/2014 12:20, Miroslav Kos wrote:
>> Hello,
>> please review following change:
>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8054548
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mkos/8054548/jaxws.00/
>>
>> It is basically replacing obsolete code using core reflection by 
>> javax.tools API plus removing old unused code.
> Thanks for doing this, it's good to get this cleaned up.
>
> The changes looks reasonable but I wonder if they are complete. I ask 
> because I assumed that JavaCompilerHelper.getJarFile would be removed. 
> Also there appears to be a bit of skullduggery in both wsimport and 
> wsgen involving -Xbootclasspath/p where it might be assuming that the 
> JAXB or JAX-WS classes are being loaded from JAR files (I didn't did 
> into ParallelWorldClassLoader.toJarUrl so perhaps it can deal with 
> other URLs).
I agree that the code looks scary, but it's because we have to support 
range of jdk (currently jdk6 to jdk9) and we want to avoid maintaining 
several branches. The standalone project must work even with jdk6. The 
magic here is to make the latest JAX-WS working with jdk6.
1.6 contain old JAX-B/WS API versions (2.1) and this tricky code allows 
to load newer (2.2) javax.xml.* classes from jars on classpath (without 
having to use java endorsed mechanism) when running standalone JAX-WS on 
the top of JDK6. Hope it is not too confusing.

Anyway I found some more code to cleanup - one more class can be removed 
- see version 2:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mkos/8054548/jaxws.01/

> In passing, I assume the comments in Invoker should use "ClassLoader" 
> or "class loader". 
fixed.

> Also the comment in createClassLoader mentions JAXB/WS 2.1 and not 
> clear how this relates to the method description where it talked about 
> 2.2
>
> In JavacompilerMessages then noJavaCompilerError() and 
> localizedNoJavaCompilerError() might be nicer names (in case you are 
> looking for something better).
Those are generated methods from resource bundle using maven plugin. I 
think we own the plugin, but I would need to dive into it little bit, 
not sure if it is worth it.

M.

>
> -Alan.