RFR: 8202583: Remove experimental ClassForNamePlugin

[Alan Bateman]

On 07/05/2018 14:23, Claes Redestad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the --class-for-name jlink plugin was added as an experiment to test 
> and evolve the jlink plugin infrastructure. The actual effect of 
> enabling this plugin on standard images is very limited (only a 
> handful of Class.forName:s are replaced) and turns out it can be a 
> breaking change since replacing a Class.forName isn't semantically 
> identical with an ldc of the class (the latter won't trigger class 
> initialization).
>
> Thus, since this plugin isn't very profitable and potentially 
> dangerous, I suggest removing it: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8202583/open.00/
The changes looks fine.

>
> An open question is whether a CSR is required to remove this.
It's an experimental/undocumented/unsupported plugin so just removing it 
should be fine (the original CSR equivalent that added jlink didn't not 
mention this plugin).

-Alan