Fw: SWT_AWT bridge fails with IllegalAccessException in Java 1.9

[Kevin Rushforth]

Phil will be the best person to answer this one.

I will note that we have a somewhat similar issue in FX, the difference 
being that we ship the SWT/FX bridge with the JDK, albeit as a separate 
jar file with an external dependency on SWT (which has its own challenges).

-- Kevin


Alan Bateman wrote:
>
>
> On 08/12/2015 08:13, Lakshmi P Shanmugam wrote:
>> :
>>
>> I would like to request for the addition of the above internal APIs 
>> to the
>> critical API list in JEP 260 so that are accessible for Java 1.9. Also,
>> please provide replacement APIs for them in the future.
>>
>>
> I think this needs someone with expertise in this area to comment, I 
> hope Phil Race or Kevin Rushforth.
>
> In particular, I think it needs direction as to whether a standard or 
> JDK-specific make sense here and whether now is the time to try to 
> define that. Maybe there have been discussion on this issue in the past.
>
> Also it would be useful to understand whether exporting sun.awt.X11, 
> sun.awt.windows, .. is even feasible.  I will guess that it would 
> require major refactoring to move these packages out of java.desktop 
> to the jdk.unsupported module. It would require everything else in 
> these packages to move elsewhere. There is also the concern that it 
> would result in a standard module (java.desktop) have a dependency on 
> a JDK-specific module (jdk.unsupported).
>
> -Alan