RFR 8165793 : Provide an API to query if a ClassLoader is parallel capable

[Mandy Chung]

> On Oct 10, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Brent Christian <brent.christian at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please review my fix for 8165793.  This follows the discussion here:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-September/009328.html
> 
> The proposal is to add a new public method on ClassLoader:
> 
> /**
> * Returns {@code true} if this class loader is
> * {@linkplain #registerAsParallelCapable parallel capable}, otherwise
> * {@code false}.
> *
> * @return  {@code true} if this class loader is parallel capable,
> *          otherwise {@code false}.
> * @since   9
> */
> public final boolean isParallelCapable();

The patch looks fine.  It would be good to add @see #registerAsParallelCapable in this new method.  Also the first “parallel capable” occurrance in the class spec and the registerAsParallelCapable method spec to @linkplain #isParallelCapable.

Mandy