Proposal: ALPN and RSASSA-PSS APIs for Java SE 8 and JDK 8

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Dec 9 11:05:12 UTC 2019


On 12/9/19 10:55 AM, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> That said, I can see Volker's point here. Putting the changes into both
> 8u40 and 8u252 appears to add an extra redundant step as far as the
> OpenJDK project is concerned. Is there a reason why the 8u40 backport is
> needed? (more specifically, why does it need to be adopted as the RI?)

I think that's because it's a specification change, and all spec changes
need a reference implementation.

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