RFR 8068976: Remove JSDT implementation

Staffan Larsen staffan.larsen at oracle.com
Thu Jan 29 12:27:34 UTC 2015


Looks good to me.

Thanks,
/Staffan

> On 14 jan 2015, at 15:05, Jaroslav Bachorik <jaroslav.bachorik at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Please, review the following removal of functionality.
> 
> Issue : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8068976
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8068976/webrev.00
> 
> JDK-8062303 [1] requests the removal of com.sun.tracing API. This API was added as experimental in JDK7 [2][3] and haven't seen any significant uptake since then.
> 
> JSDT builds on top of the com.sun.tracing API and provides the bridge to DTrace. It allows Java programs to fire custom DTrace probes. As an implementation of com.sun.tracing API it needs to be removed before proceeding with the removal of that API.
> 
> This change is basically an anti-delta to [4] - minus the changes not related to JSDT and/or DTrace.
> 
> This change passes all the regression and JCK tests.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -JB-
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8062303
> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6537506
> [3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7037081
> [4] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-rt/hotspot/rev/018d5b58dd4f



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