[8u40] Putback request for 8064667: Provide support to help identify use of endorsed standards and extension mechanism

[Naoto Sato]

This was somewhat misleading, but take it as an "approval."

Naoto

On 11/19/14, 1:37 PM, Naoto Sato wrote:
> Since you've already got the code review done specifically for 8u, you
> are good to go.
>
> Naoto
>
> On 11/19/14, 1:10 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> Coleen and Calvin from runtime team have reviewed and approved this
>> fix.  I notice that jdk8u-dev got dropped in their review [1].
>>
>> May I get the 8u40 approval to putback this change?
>>
>> Updated webrev:
>>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk8u/webrevs/8064667/webrev.02
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mandy
>> [1]
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2014-November/013312.html
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/17/2014 8:57 AM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>>> This requests both code review and 8u40 approval for:
>>>    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8064667
>>>
>>> Webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk8u/webrevs/8064667/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> JEP 220 [1] proposes to remove the endorsed standards override
>>> mechanism and extension mechanism. This patch adds a VM flag in 8u40
>>> to help identify any existing uses of these mechanisms so that users
>>> can turn on the VM flag to help identify if they depend on the
>>> endorsed standards override mechanism and extension mechanism and can
>>> plan to prepare for the migration to a newer JDK release early on.
>>> When -XX:+CheckEndorsedAndExtDirs is set, the VM will exit if the
>>> system property -Djava.endorsed.dirs or -Djava.ext.dirs is set, or if
>>> ${java.home}/lib/endorsed or ${java.home}/lib/ext exists, or any
>>> system extension directory contains JAR files.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Mandy
>>> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/220
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>