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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