Request for review: 7017673: Remove setting of the sun.jkernel.DownloadManager as a boot classloader hook

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Mon Feb 7 12:58:31 PST 2011


  On 02/07/11 12:50, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
> On 2/7/2011 3:17 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>>  This change will remove the setting of the 
>> sun.jkernel.DownloadManager as a boot classloader hook fixed in 
>> 6888880 as jkernel will not be supported in JDK7:
>>     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot/hotspot/rev/4b966d9946a3
>>
>> Webrev at:
>>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/7017673/webrev.00/
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mandy
>
> I was hoping this change would take out the entire DownloadManager 
> definition and call in systemDictionary.cpp.
>

I don't think we can do so since hotspot VM has to continue supporting 
jkernel for jdk 6 update, right?

Mandy

> Coleen



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