RFR [9] 8150162: Move sun.misc.Version to a truly internal package

[Iris Clark]

Hi, Chris.

> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8150162/

>From a versioning perspective, I think your changes are fine.  

Regarding the choice of package, I think a package-private class in java.lang is reasonable.  Beyond initialization, I don't see any reason to use this class.  The new jdk.Version API should be used in preference to these *{Major,Minor,Security,...}Version() methods.  I'm not the code maintainer, but I'd consider deprecating them.

Thanks,
iris
(not a Reviewer)

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hegarty 
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 7:53 AM
To: core-libs-dev; Iris Clark
Subject: RFR [9] 8150162: Move sun.misc.Version to a truly internal package

sun.misc.Version is the core libraries part of a private interface with the JVM to query and set specific JVM version and capabilities, as well as being responsible for setting the system properties for  "java.version", "java.runtime.version", and "java.runtime.name" ( which are generated during the build ).

It is not a "Critical API", as defined by JEP 260, so should be moved out of sun.misc and placed into a more appropriate package where it can be encapsulated.

Version is only used by j.l.System during initialization, so I've taken the liberty of moving it into java.lang as package-private. It could, however, be placed in jdk.internal.misc, if it is more generally useful. That said, most other usages should be able to use the JDK specific Version API.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8150162/
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8150162

-Chris.

P.S. 8150163 & 8150168 are in progress to replace unnecessary usages of sun.misc.Version with the JDK specific Version.