New candidate JEP: 371: Hidden Classes

[Mandy Chung]

On 1/24/20 9:15 PM, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wonder will this (weak class) be useful for reflective method 
> accessors and even be able to reduce/remove the need of 
> jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingClassLoaders? If so, that would be a good 
> example to mention in the JEP (it only mentions Proxies).

The other alternative is to change core reflection to use MethodHandle
where Peter Levart has a prototype:
    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6824466

This would help the reflective support for inline classes and
new VM/language feature such that adding support in MethodHandle
will work both both.

> (And I was really surprised to see Nashorn mentioned after it is 
> deprecated, even when it is certainly a good Test bed).

Yes Roger brought that up too. It can be taken out.

thanks
Mandy

> Gruss
> Bernd
> 
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> Cheers,
> David