JEP proposed to target JDK 21: 451: Prepare to Disallow the Dynamic Loading of Agents

[Mark Reinhold]

The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 21:

  451: Prepare to Disallow the Dynamic Loading of Agents
       https://openjdk.org/jeps/451

  Summary: Issue warnings when agents are loaded dynamically into a
  running JVM.  These warnings aim to prepare users for a future release
  which disallows the dynamic loading of agents by default in order to
  improve integrity by default.  Serviceability tools that load agents at
  startup will not cause warnings to be issued in any release.

Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
are raised by 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 31 May, or if they’re raised and
then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [2]
I’ll target this JEP to JDK 21.

- Mark


[1] https://openjdk.org/census#jdk
[2] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html