Review request: module graph clean up
mark.reinhold at oracle.com
mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Wed Nov 9 07:55:49 PST 2011
2011/11/9 7:47 -0800, alan.bateman at oracle.com:
> On 09/11/2011 15:21, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>> On second thought, what's the motivation for this item? The
>> java.util.prefs package is pretty small. Why split it out?
>
> I have to own up here and say that I mentioned to Mandy recently that I didn't
> think that the desktop module was the right place for the preferences API. I
> don't think it's an API that even got too much traction but I think should be
> usable in contexts where the desktop module is not installed.
Agreed.
> It is small and a
> good candidate for aggregation. The native methods are currently in libjava, so
> in the base module.
Sounds right to me.
- Mark
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