[7u6] Request for phase 2 approval for CR 7182135 - Impossible to use some editors directly

[Edvard Wendelin]

Pre-approved pending release team approval and positive reviews.

Thanks,
Edvard

On Jul 13, 2012, at 2:35 PM, sunita koppar wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Please review the below Code change:
> 
> *Description of the bug:*
> Theclasses sun.beans.editors.BoolEditor and sun.beans.editors.IntEditor are being used by some customers directly. These classes
> have been changed in JRE7 to be sun.beans.editors.BooleanEditor and  sun.beans.editors.IntegerEditor. The current change is to make this change backward compatible.
> 
> *Webrev:*
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbankal/7182135/webrev.00/
> Please note, this changeset is not and will not be pushed to JDK8 for below reasons:
> 1. The change is only to allow such private API usage up-till 7uX.
> 2. The webrev for 7u6 is different and incorporates only a subset of changes which have to be pushed immediately.
> 3. Even if we decide to port this to JDK8, the webrev for 7u8 (a greater set of changes) will go into JDK8 and not the one for 7u6 (current one).
> 
> *Tests done:*
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbankal/7182135/Tests/
> 1. JPRT built and tested successfully for all platforms
> 2. Unit testing done after modifying an existing testcase. This tries to load the BoolEditor and IntEditor classes. For details refer - http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbankal/7182135/Tests/UnitTest.txt
> 3. Regression testing with jtreg.
> 4. JCK tests.
> 
> *Risks:*
> The change carries minimal risk as we are just extending existing classes to support additional editor names.
> 
> 
> regards
> Sunita Koppar
> Java Client Sustaining Engineer
> 
> P.S: My mercurial id is not working well. Hence requested Mala to publish the webrev for me. Thanks Mala.