[9] RFC JDK-8068373: (prefs) FileSystemPreferences writes \0 to XML storage, causing loss of all preferences

[Brian Burkhalter]

Hi Roger,

That has been my thought all along. Dealing with the forward and backward compatibility issues and with what might be acceptable for .plist files vs. XML does not seem worth the overhead by comparison.

Thanks,

Brian

On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at oracle.com> wrote:

> I think its worth the overhead of cleaning up the spec and
> the backward compatibility risk is low given the XML restriction.
> (Though perhaps not directly back-portable to 8 without the spec change)