Need help testing the EA builds

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Wed Mar 9 18:01:02 UTC 2016


> On Mar 9, 2016, at 1:39 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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> 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?

I didn’t like the package name either but just get something to work.

what about sun.tools.vm.spi?  jdk.internal.vm.agent.spi (instead of jdk.internal.vm.spi which seems to be a generic VM SPI rather than specific to tools?)

Mandy



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