RFR[9] 8068686: Remove meta-index support

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Tue Feb 16 20:39:33 UTC 2016


On Feb 16, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> The Modular Run-Time image, integrated in b41, no longer has JAR files,
> see JEP 220 [1], The meta-index is no longer generated or used. This
> issue proposes to remove the meta-index support from the runtime and
> the build.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8068686/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8068686

Looks good.

I assume at some point the classlist under jdk/make/tools/classlist will be updated.  They currently reference several sun.misc types that you have removed or renamed.

Mandy


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