JEP 102 Process Updates revised API draft

[Peter Levart]

On 03/10/2015 02:55 PM, Roger Riggs wrote:
> ProcessHandle is designed to not to have an external implementations 
> (the constructor is package private). 

I don't see a purpose in this. You can still subclass it freely, because 
you can subclass Process which is-a ProcessHandle. I think it can be an 
interface (see previous post).

For the same reason Process is designed to support custom/external 
implementations (for platforms not directly supported by Oracle, for 
example), there is a reason to support costom/external implementations 
of ProcessHandle. But we should not stop at what we have now. Instead of 
static factory methods creating just internal implementations, we could 
add a Process[Handle]Spi locatable via ServiceLoader to fully support 
external implementations for the whole API (static methods too). This 
can be added later if it is too much work for JDK9.

What do you think?

Regards, Peter