RFR: 8072379: Implement jdk.Version and jdk.OracleVersion

[Alan Bateman]

On 11/01/2016 21:44, Iris Clark wrote:
> Hi, Joe, Roger, Alan, Magnus, and Mandy.
>
> At the end of December (shortly before the Christmas/Winter
> break and my vacation), I provided responses to your messages
> and an updated webrev:
>
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iris/verona/8072379/webrev.2/
>
> I didn't hear from anybody, so I'd like to optimistically assume
> that you were satisfied.  Is that correct?
>
> For you convenience, here's a reference to the December and November
> threads:
>
>      http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-December/037062.html
>      http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-November/036904.html
>
> I'd like to wrap up this work for the initial implementation of
> jdk.Version soon.
>
I think this looks good but we'll to decide which module to put this in. 
It can't be java.base (see design principles in JEP 200). If it's going 
into java.base temporarily then the top-level modules.xml will need to 
be updated to export the "jdk" package.

-Alan