New candidate JEP: 408: Simple Web Server

[Julia Boes]

Hi Krzysztof,

Is there a plan to change the package name?
I always thought that com.sun.* package was for old internal code and I assume I'm not the only one.

the simple server builds on the existing API in the com.sun.net.httpserver package, which was added in JDK 1.6. At that time, the convention for JDK-specific APIs was to use the com.sun namespace. Other examples are com.sun.nio.sctp or com.sun.security.ntlm. In more recent times, this convention has been replaced with the jdk namespace. Both name spaces are JDK-specific, as such the simple server API is a supported JDK API.

Given that we're simply building on top of the long-standing API in com.sun.net.httpserver, revisiting the package name is out of the scope of this project.

Regards,
Julia