RFR 8143404: Remove apple script engine code in jdk repository

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Dec 3 15:42:17 UTC 2015



On 03/12/2015 15:06, Sundararajan Athijegannathan wrote:
> Please review.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143404
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sundar/8143404/webrev.00/
>
> Apple script engine implementing javax.script engine API is being 
> removed. AppleScript engine has flip flopped between working and 
> broken many times.The services configuration (META-INF/services) file 
> was missing and only worked by accident when installing JDK 7 or JDK 8 
> on systems that had Apple's version of AppleScriptEngine.jar already 
> on the system.  So, it is removed for jdk 9.
There are few references to these classes/directories that will need to 
be cleaned up too. I see on in the langtools repo, another in the 
top-level repo in the unshuffle_list.txt.

-Alan.



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