RFR: 8352748: Remove com.sun.tools.classfile from the JDK [v2]

[Chen Liang]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 15:04:24 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> With all dependencies of com.sun.tools.classfile in the JDK converted to the ClassFile API, we can remove this legacy library for release 25 like how we removed ASM.
>> 
>> Testing: built locally, running tier 1-3 tests
>> 
>> Don't know why, but GitHub is redundantly displaying changes that are already in #24212.
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> Chen Liang has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains eight commits:
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>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into feature/remove-old-classfile
>  - 8352748: Remove com.sun.tools.classfile from the JDK
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into feature/remove-old-classfile
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into feature/migrate-create-symbols
>  - Other references to remove
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into feature/migrate-create-symbols
>  - FieldDescription.constantValue uses Integer for byte and short
>  - 8310310: Migrate CreateSymbols tool in make/langtools to Classfile API

Tier 1-3 tests all pass. Thanks for the reviews!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24528#issuecomment-2791008239