[7u12] Request for approval for CR 8000999: backport of JSR 292 to 7u

[Christian Thalinger]

On Oct 18, 2012, at 12:00 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

> 2012/10/18 11:54 -0700, christian.thalinger at oracle.com:
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/8000999/
>> 8000999: backport of JSR 292 to 7u
>> 
>> This is an umbrella bug for these changes (which are backported in one
>> changeset):
>> 
>> ...
> 
> Um, isn't this an awfully big change for what's supposed to be a low-risk
> update release?

It's big, indeed.  But actually it's a bug fix and it only touches JSR 292 related files and functionality.

Since PR decided that HS24 will be used for 7u12 (which I applaud to) we need these changes in 7.  Otherwise it doesn't work.

-- Chris

> 
> - Mark