Updated EA builds with initial implementations of current proposals

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Thu Jul 7 15:22:43 UTC 2016


2016/7/7 7:58:29 -0700, adinn at redhat.com:
> On 07/07/16 15:52, Paul Benedict wrote:
>> Hi Mark. Do these set of changes mean those alternative proposals are now
>> set in stone? I didn't know feedback was finished. ...
> 
> I though Alan's note made this clear
> 
> "The jigsaw/jake forest has been updated with an initial implementation
> of the proposals that Mark brought to the jpms-spec-experts mailing list
> last week.
> 
> ...
> 
> The discussion on some of these issues is ongoing so don't treat
> anything as final yet. We'll refresh the builds as needed over the
> coming weeks."
> 
> I believe the idea is to allow people to try out the proposals to see
> how (and how well) they work. I'm certainly glad of the chance to
> ascertain whether #ReflectiveAccessByInstrumentationAgents is up to
> scratch or not.

Exactly.

If and when an open design issue is settled then it will be marked as
such in the issue list.  Until then, what you see in the jake forest
and the EA builds is just a prototype for experimentation.

- Mark


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