[8u] RFR 8160768: Add capability to custom resolve host/domain names within the default JNDI LDAP provider

[Andrew Hughes]

On 17:00 Thu 06 Aug     , Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 10:13 -0400, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
> > > The original patch required a CSR[1], so we should file one for JDK 8u
> > > too. I wonder where the CSR is for Oracle JDK 8, though.
> > 
> > It does not seem to have a CSR for 11u backport(?) Do 8u need one?
> 
> Right. I don't know about what happened there for Oracle JDK. You could
> try to ask.
> 
> I believe we need one since this is changing the 8 SE API by adding:
> 
> javax/naming/ldap/spi/LdapDnsProvider.java
> javax/naming/ldap/spi/LdapDnsProviderResult.java
> 
> Thanks,
> Severin
> 

I haven't looked at the patch in full (and doesn't seem to be linked
in this mail). Are these new public classes?

If so, that's more than just a behavioural compatibility change. It
changes the API specification of Java 8. That requires a maintenance
release of the specification (as with ALPN) or you would need to house
such classes in a different namespace (as was done with Nimbus for
OpenJDK 6).

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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