Enhanced Class Redefinition JEP

[Jon Masamitsu]

Thomas,

 From the JEP Description section

"The behavior of the current mechanism that swaps method bodies is 
unaffected."

As I recall some of the class redefinition in your implementation requires
doing a heap iteration (scan and update similar to a full GC)
to update references to redefined classes.
Does the statement above from the description mean that in your
implementation the swapping method bodies does not require the
heap iteration?  I think the current implementation in hotspot does
not require such an iteration.

Jon




On 7/27/2011 3:03 PM, Thomas Wuerthinger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> find attached a JDK Enhancement-Proposal (JEP) for enhancing HotSpot's 
> class redefinition capabilities. The proposed features include 
> adding/removing methods and fields as well as adding supertypes. The 
> JEP includes links to a prototype implementation and technical 
> publications about the approach.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas Wuerthinger