Request for Discussion: 8253952: Work around wrong usage of ZipOutputStream.putNextEntry() in user code

[Alan Bateman]

On 06/10/2020 11:08, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Sure. That's obviously the simplest and best solution and I'd be
> totally happy with it. I just thought there might be a need for
> somehow preserving the old and buggy behaviour, that's why I added the
> system property.
>
> I've created a simpler version of the fix without property and
> adjusted the @apiNote accordingly:
>
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/520
>
> Would you be fine with such a solution?
>
I think I could go along with the approach but we should clarify the 
spec, meaning the behavior should be in normative text rather than 
apiNote (an apiNote with additional commentary or example code is okay 
of course).

-Alan