Request Review: JDK-6479237 (cl) Add support for classloader names

[Alan Bateman]

On 26/10/2016 16:28, David M. Lloyd wrote:

> :
>
> Some background is in order I guess.  I've been reworking a couple of 
> our projects to support both Java 9 and Java 8, using MR JARs and also 
> without MR JARs.  In the MR JAR case it's been easiest (so far) to 
> push off the JDK-version-specific stuff into a nonpublic "JDKSpecific" 
> class which gets replaced under Java 9. However, because the 
> ClassLoader change requires a new constructor to be called, I actually 
> have to put the whole ClassLoader implementation into the MR 
> supplement, which is pretty clunky at best and might introduce some 
> tricky build difficulties at worst.
Can you introduce an intermediate ClassLoader into the type hierarchy? 
The 8 version will just invoke super(), the 9+ version will invoke 
super(name). That would keep the JDK-specific code to a minimum.

-Alan