<i18n dev> RFR: JDK-8042369 Remove duplicated java.time classes in build.tools.tzdb

[Xueming Shen]

Hi,

I've not got any feedback so far, so I assume it's good:-)

Anyway, I'm going a little further to throw in a TarInputStream so now we just build the
tzdb data directly on  the tzdata201xy.tar.gz from iana site. I'm not sure if it is OK to
check in the original .tar.gz file into the jdk repository though.

There are also more improvements in this version, it is much faster now. It might
not matter as it is only used during build time, though:-)

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8042369/webrev

-Sherman

Btw, I'm still trying to sell the idea of checking in a second tzdb provider implementation
into the jdk, which directly loads in the tzdb data by using the iana original source data,
with the assumption that this might be useful at least in certain circumstance (such as
one gov pushes a tz change, and some of your big jdk customers need their apps run with
the new data in next 24 hrs...) in the future.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/tzdbProvider/webrev


On 05/04/2014 11:16 PM, Xueming Shen wrote:
> Hi
>
> Please help review the change for #8042369
>
> Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8042369
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8042369/webrev
>
> In jdk8 we had to duplicate dozen java.time classes in build.tools to build the timezone data
> for the new JSR310 timezone data compiler, which uses the new jdk8 java.time classes (these
> classes don't exit in the < 8 boot jdk). JDK9 has switched to use the jdk8 as the boot jdk,  so
> most of these duplicated classes are no longer needed, with ZoneRules as the only exception.
> The ZoneRules is still needed to help the tzdb compiler to output the tzdb data in the
> serialization forms of those transitions and rules. The proposed change here is to remove
> those unneeded duplicated classes.
>
> I also took the opportunity to re-organize/re-wrote the "builder" classes to have a faster, simpler
> and and straightforward implementation, with the goal of migrating it into a second default
> ZoneRulesProvider later to plug it into jdk, so jdk/jre can uses the tzdb source data from the
> IANA directly. One of the benefits of such a provider is that the end user may just drop the latest
> timezone data file into the jdk/jre and go, without waiting for the latest timezone binary bits from
> Oracle.
>
> Here is the webrev for the idea
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/tzdbProvider/webrev/
>
> The only disadvantage appears to be the possible "slowdown" of startup time because of
> the reading and compiling of the 200k tzdb source data...(we need another new "bridge" for
>  j.u.TimeZone, if we go with this direction)
>
> Thanks!
> -Sherman
>
>