Need help testing the EA builds

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Mar 9 09:39:32 UTC 2016



On 08/03/2016 23:00, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 6:08 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> In order, then my preferences for resolving this are:
>>
>> 1. Compete the tool separation, meaning JDK-8059035.
>>
>> 2. Change these tools to use services so that the SA backend is a service provider.
>>
> #2 seems to be trivial and I quickly hack up a patch:
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jigsaw/webrevs/8059035/webrev.00/
>
Thanks for jumping on this, it looks good and very simple as you say.

One thing that might need changes is the location of the tool provider, 
it's currently sun.tools.providers and that seems too general. Shoudl we 
put this to a spi package under jdk.internal for now?

-Alan


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