RFR: 8200559: Java agents doing instrumentation need a means to define auxiliary classes [v2]

[Rafael Winterhalter]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:30:15 GMT, Rafael Winterhalter <winterhalter at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> To allow agents the definition of auxiliary classes, an API is needed to allow this. Currently, this is often achieved by using `sun.misc.Unsafe` or `jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe` ever since the `defineClass` method was removed from `sun.misc.Unsafe`.
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>   8200559: Java agents doing instrumentation need a means to define auxiliary classes

I tried to give the discussion a fresh start but moved it to the mailing list: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2024-January/118622.html

I have given this some thought the recent years, so I hope that there is a solution in reach that satisfies everybody's concerns and needs.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/3546#issuecomment-1913742617