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

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/9/19 11:08 AM, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> On 09/12/2019 11:05, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Well, yes, of course. But the question was why 8u40 needs to be the RI?

Oh, I see. I think the idea is that one RI is updated with the minimal changes
to go to the next. To do otherwise would require Oracle to sanctify a code base
that they've never looked at. They'd have to be very brave.  :-)

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