<i18n dev> RFR 9 7131356 : (props) "No Java runtime present, requesting install" when creating VM from JNI [macosx]

[Brent Christian]

Hi,

Please review this Mac-only fix:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bchristi/7131356/webrev.01/
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7131356

Thanks go to Gerard Ziemski for the thorough investigation and detailed 
write-up in the bug report.

The symptoms:

On those OS X machines where the default system Java is not installed, 
any attempt to instantiate JVM from a local JDK (for example via JNI as 
shown in the bug) presents "No Java installed. Do you want to install 
Java?" dialog and refuses to run. Clearly, a valid local JDK should be 
able to run in this case.

The problem:

In java_props_macosx.c, there is code that dynamically looks up 4 
methods in JavaRuntimeSupport.framework (JRS) and calls into them to 
find out localized OS version, default locale and the preferred 
language, but JRS checks for a system available Java and refuses to run 
if none found.

Background:

JavaRuntimeSupport.framework (JRS) is a framework implemented and 
provided by Apple for use by Java.  It is a "black box" that wraps SPIs 
required by the Apple-provided implementation of JDK, exposing them to 
the JDK as APIs.

Now that the JDK implementation ownership has changed from Apple to 
Oracle, we have the issue that we don't control the JRS implementation, 
but rely on Apple to support it for our JDK to continue to run. 
Depending on a private framework provided by a third party for our code 
to continue to run doesn't seem like a good long term bet (see also 
8024281).

Proposed solution:

Apple suggested changing the JDK initialization order so any access to 
JRS happens only after the JLI_MemAlloc symbol is available.  We believe 
a better solution is to re-implement the JSR APIs in question, as a move 
toward eventually dropping reliance on JSR altogether.  The three main 
changes are:

1. In "getMacOSXLocale", re-implement "JRSCopyPrimaryLanguage" using 
"CFLocaleCopyPreferredLanguages", which gives us the preferred language 
as set in "System Preferences"->"Language & Text"->"Language" in the 
form of "xx" (ie. just the language code - ex. "en", "fr", etc.).  The 
original Apple code then calls into 
"JRSCopyCanonicalLanguageForPrimaryLanguage" to map "language" into 
"language_REGION" (ex. "en"-->"en_US", "fr"-->"fr_FR", etc.), though 
this appears to be unnecessary.  Following the call to 
setupMacOSXLocale() in ParseLocale()[1], mapLookup() is called to map 
the language to a default country, per this comment:

      * If the locale name (without .encoding at variant, if any) matches
      * any of the names in the locale_aliases list, map it to the
      * corresponding full locale name.  Most of the entries in the
      * locale_aliases list are locales that include a language name but
      * no country name, and this facility is used to map each language
      * to a default country if that's possible.

I tried out a few locales, for English (en_US, en_GB), German (de_DE, 
de_CH) and French (fr_FR, fr_CA).  Language/country system properties 
behave the same before and after this change, as does the 
java.util.Locale test attached to the bug.

2. In "setupMacOSXLocale" we simply drop the call to 
"JRSSetDefaultLocalization" as it appears to be a NOP. According to 
Apple, that API sets up native bundle locale, so that any access to 
native Cocoa UI (like FileOpenChooser) uses localized strings. Testing 
shows that this does not seem to work even in Apple's own JDK (ie. JDK 
6), so dropping the call to this SPI here does not result in a 
regression.  An issue was filed to investigate further (8024279, a dup 
of 8019464) which has since been closed as, "Not an Issue".

3. In "setOSNameAndVersion", re-implement JRSCopyOSVersion using 
[NSProcessInfo operatingSystemVersion].  (Use of JRSCopyOSName was 
already removed by 7178922).


Thanks,
-Brent

1. 
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/79043a1c3547/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/java_props_md.c