JEPs proposed to target JDK 9 (2016/3/10)

[Volker Simonis]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:51 PM,  <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:
> The following JEPs have been placed into the "Proposed to Target"
> state by their owners after discussion and review:
>
>   200: The Modular JDK
>        http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/200
>
>   260: Encapsulate Most Internal APIs
>        http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/260
>
>   261: Module System
>        http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/261
>
>   275: Modular Java Application Packaging
>        http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/275
>
>   282: jlink: The Java Linker
>        http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/282
>
>   284: New HotSpot Build System
>        http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/284
>
>   285: Spin-Wait Hints
>        http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/285
>
> The following JEP has been placed into the "Proposed to Drop"
> state by its owner:
>
>   230: Microbenchmark Suite
>        http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/230
>

Is there any place where I can get information on why this has been
placed into "Proposed to Drop" state? Is it just a time/resources
problem for jdk9 or is the plan to completely withdraw JEP 230?

Regards,
Volker


> Feedback on these proposals is more than welcome, as are reasoned
> objections.  If no such objections are raised by 22:00 UTC next
> Thursday, 17 March, or if they're raised and then satisfactorily
> answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [1] I'll target
> these JEPs to JDK 9.
>
> (This information is also available on the JDK 9 Project Page [2]).
>
> - Mark
>
>
> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/