Request for Approval: 6425769: Allow specifying an address to bind JMX remote connector

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> Please approve and sponsor the following fix for JDK-6425769 to 7u-dev.
> It's a one-to-one backport from the fix which went into JDK 8 and JDK
> 9. What needed changing is the test to account for JDK 7 and
> accompanying testlibrary. There were also two subsequent test fixes in
> JDK 8/9 for which I'd like to ask for backport approval as well.
> 
> Main bug:
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6425769
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-6425769/jdk7.00/
> HG export:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-6425769/jdk7-exports/
> 
> The actual patch is the same as in 9 and 8. Only slight modifications
> to the test have been done to make it work with JDK 7.
> 
> 
> Test fixes for the test introduced with JDK-6425769:
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8145982
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8145982/jdk7.00/
> HG export:
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8145982/jdk7-exports/JDK-8145982.export.jdk.patch
> 
> It's the very same patch as in 8 and 9.
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8146015
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8146015/jdk7.00/
> HG export:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8146015/jdk7-exports/JDK-8146015.export.jdk.patch
> 
> It's the same patch as in 8 and 9. It only accounts for surrounding code
> changes.
> 
> Please let me know if there are questions.
> 
> Thanks,
> Severin
> 

Done:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/ef39ed3d2518
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/417751279615
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/852c8effb528
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/hotspot/rev/631da593499e

Are you planning to backport this to 6 as well? It would be good if we were consistent across all versions.
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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