Proposal for back-porting JFR to OpenJDK8u

[Andrew Hughes]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 14:55, Gil Tene <gil at azul.com> wrote:

snip...

> [By my reading] To remain compatible/compliant with a Java Specification
> (Java SE 8 in this case), you cannot “modify, subset, superset, or otherwise
> extend the java.*, java.*, com.sun.*, and com.oracle.* namespaces.
>
> The jdk.* namespace is fair game from a spec compatibility perspective,
> regardless of whether or not the classes end up in rt.jar. (I too like the
> idea of a separate jar).
>

For what it's worth, com.sun.* (and presumably its successor, com.oracle.*)
seem to be fair game as well, as it's being used in other backports. This
includes cases like getting Nimbus into OpenJDK 6, where public API needed to be
downgraded to private.

If the result passes the TCK, we should be good on this.
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Andrew :)

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