RFR: 8344575: Examine usage of ReflectUtil.forName() in java.sql.rowset - XmlReaderContentHandler

[Alan Bateman]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 21:41:28 GMT, Brent Christian <bchristi at openjdk.org> wrote:

> `XmlReaderContentHandler.endElement()` routes a `Class.forName()` call through `ReflectUtil.forName()`. When `sun.reflect.misc.ReflectUtil.forName()` calls the 1-arg `Class.forName()`, it is doing so from `java.base`, and so using the boot loader.
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> Changing `XmlReaderContentHandler` to use the 3-arg `Class.forName()` method with a null classloader should yield equivalent behavior.

ReflectUtil.forName can be removed as this is the last usage. Also java.base no longer needs to import sun.reflect.misc to java.sql.rowset.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22585#issuecomment-2522202759