7u40 Request for approval for CR: 8017174: NPE when using Logger.getAnonymousLogger or LogManager.getLogManager().getLogger

[Seán Coffey]

Approved for jdk7u40-dev.

regards,
Sean.

On 15/07/13 11:28, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a request to backport 8017174 to 7u40 [1].
>
> This is a regression from 7u25 causing applets calling 
> Logger.getAnonymousLogger() to fail.
>
> This fix has been resolved in jdk7u-dev and jdk8. WLS and GlassFish
> has done some preliminary testing with the 7u engineering build
> with this fix and found no new regression.
>
> Open review thread:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-June/018518.html 
>
>
> The JDK 8 changeset is here:
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/020f023f87d1
>
> It applied cleanly to the jdk7u-dev source base (hg export | hg import).
> JDK 7 changeset:
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/7064285022a0
>
> best regards,
>
> -- daniel
>
> Backport bug id:
> [1] https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8020493