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

[Coleen Phillimore]

On 2/7/2011 3:58 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>  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?

I don't know.  I'm pretty sure the 6 updates aren't supporting jkernel 
so it would be okay to remove it (cc'ed Bill who is removing it from 
deployment).

Coleen
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> Mandy
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>> Coleen
>