7u40 Request for approval for CR 8008738 - Issue in com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.Encodings causes some JCK tests to fail intermittently

[Seán Coffey]

Daniel,

since the changeset differs from that of the jdk8 one, can you get a 
review carried out? I'm cc'ing Alan and Joe here.

Consider this approved pending code review.

regards,
Sean.

On 29/05/13 18:33, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a request for approval to backport the changes for:
> <https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8008738>
>
> The review for the original fix happened for jdk8 on the
> core-libs-dev list, in these two  thread:
>
> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-April/016037.html> 
>
> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-May/016602.html> 
>
>
> The changeset for jdk7u-dev only slightly differs from that
> for jdk 8, on these two counts:
>
> 1. JAXP needs to be compiled with the bootstrap JDK - which
>    means that JAXP in jdk 7 cannot depend on new jdk 7 APIs.
>
>    In Encodings.java I had to replace a try-with-resource by
>    a try-finally.
>
> 2. The jdk/test/Makefile needed to be updated in order to add
>    javax/xml/jaxp to the jdk_other target.
>
> Here is the webrev for the changeset pushed in jdk8:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/JDK-8008738/webrev.03/
>
> Here is the webrev for jdk7u-dev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/JDK-8008738/webrev-jdk7u-dev.00/
>
> Best regards,
>
> -- daniel
>
>