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

William Harnois william.harnois at oracle.com
Mon Feb 7 15:07:17 PST 2011


On 2/7/11 4:46 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
> 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).

We didn't have any plans of dropping kernel from JDK6.  We were only 
going to drop from JDK7 and later.

-Bill

>
> Coleen
>>
>> Mandy
>>
>>> Coleen
>>
>



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