[9] RFR 8072369: [TESTBUG] Remove potentially insecure class cast in some hotspot tests

[Christian Thalinger]

Oops.  Forgot to reply.  Looks good.

> On Oct 14, 2015, at 4:39 AM, Konstantin Shefov <konstantin.shefov at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> Kindly reminder.
> 
> Thanks
> -Konstantin
> 
> On 10/07/2015 06:28 PM, Konstantin Shefov wrote:
>> Hi Christian
>> 
>> The assumption that the Application Class Loader is an instance of URLClassLoader can be false, because, AFAIK, it is not documented anywhere.
>> This may become false in the future releases of JDK.
>> That is why it is better not to relay on this assumption.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Konstantin
>> 
>> 06.10.2015 22:35, Christian Thalinger пишет:
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 9, 2015, at 3:16 AM, Konstantin Shefov <konstantin.shefov at oracle.com <mailto:konstantin.shefov at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Description of the fix.
>>>> Some tests in hotspot repo use class cast from Application class loader to URLClassLoader, but Application class loader is not guaranteed to be always an instance of a URLClassLoader.
>>> 
>>> Please excuse my lack of knowledge here but in what configuration does this happen?
>>> 
>>>> The tests should be changed so that they do not cast appclassloader to URLClassLoader.
>>>> 
>>>> -Konstantin
>>>> 
>>>> On 09/08/2015 07:01 PM, Konstantin Shefov wrote:
>>>>> Hello 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please review a test bug fix. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> JBS entry: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8072369 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8072369> 
>>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kshefov/8072369/webrev.00 <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ekshefov/8072369/webrev.00> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks 
>>>>> -Konstantin 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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