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

[David M. Lloyd]

On 10/26/2016 10:43 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> On 10/26/2016 10:39 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> 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.

Just wanted to drop a note an say this approach worked perfectly, of 
course.  Thanks for the tip.
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- DML