jigsaw EA feedback for apache lucene

[Alan Bateman]

On 10/09/2015 12:22, Robert Muir wrote:
> :
>
> When looking at the current situation for elasticsearch, as far as
> internal package usage, we aren't doing it ourselves, but today i've
> still got to worry about:
>
> 1. sun.misc.* for the mmap "unmap hack" of lucene.
> 2. sun.security.ssl.* for some crazy code in the AWS api.
> 3. sun.reflect.* for something groovy is doing.
Some of these are may be "critical internal APIs" described in JEP 260 
[1] so there is more time to work on those.

>
> Its rare that java libraries use these internal packages in a "nice"
> way (e.g. well-contained in accesscontroller block, fallback if its
> not allowed/optional,. ...). Usually it is just direct usage and
> nobody is aware or cares about it, because most people are not using
> securitymanager.
If I understand you then you are finding these usages with JDK 7 and JDK 
8 because you're forced to configure the security policy to grant access 
to these sun.* packages. So some extent then it means you have a head start.

-Alan.

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/260