Initial webrev with changes for JDK 9

[Seán Coffey]

On 09/03/2016 08:58, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> On 08/03/2016 22:06, Seán Coffey wrote:
>> I'm hoping we can bulk up some of the new exception handling. I've 
>> put suggested edits for the jdk repo together in a webrev. No major 
>> edits here but it should help supportability of the code for the 
>> future. Will it be possible to import these in before the bulk push ?
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coffeys/webrev.jake_edits/webrev/
> Thanks for bringing this up. No issue improving the exception 
> messages, esp. incorrect API mis-use. I note that you've changed 
> several InternalError where the JDK must be completely hosed (`java 
> -version` would fail) if they were to arise.
Agreed - important for end user to know what the JDK's last breath was 
all about.
>
> Given that there will be significant code churn for several months 
> then maybe it would be better to do a pass over the exceptions closer 
> to JDK 9 FC. Would you be okay with that? We can create an issue in 
> JIRA to make sure that it doesn't get forgotten.
Yes - that works. I'll put forward a patch when this is in jdk9/dev. I 
was hoping to would be easier to target corrections before it entered 
the mainline.

regards,
Sean.
>
> -Alan