JDK-8161256

[Peter]

Will a JEP be created for general data in constant pools?

CONSTANT_Bytes - tag byte 2
CONSTANT_Group - tag byte 13

The attraction of allowing general data in constant pools, is that it 
may stabilise the constant pool, there have been a number of additions 
to the constant pool since Java 8 and this feature, while adding two 
more constants, reduces future need or motivation for growing the 
constant pool.

It's my understanding that Java 11 will be a long term support release, 
like Java 8.   Will this be added in Java 12?

Thanks,

Peter.