Updating JDK libraries to use Project Coin features

[Neil Richards]

On 15 December 2010 01:34, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> The JDK 7 build has been using -source 7 for some time, but to date use of
> new language features has been informal and incidental.  Supporting Project
> Coin and JSR 334, Stuart Marks will be leading a "minting" exercise over the
> JDK code base to systematically update the JDK libraries to take advantage
> of the Project Coin language features. Efforts will be focused on the src
> and test portions of the jdk repository of the JDK 7 forest. [1]  The first
> features to be rolled into the code will be diamond and strings in switch.

It would be really great if the compiler code remains able to be built
using a Java 6 bootstrap.
(So that everyone's build environment doesn't become reliant on
pre-FCS quality code).

Are the ways or plans to identify which classes are required by the
compiler code, and so which should not be included in the "minting"
exercise?

Cheers,
Neil

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