Using non-parallel custom class loaders for Layer configurations

[David M. Lloyd]

On 09/08/2016 06:48 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>
>> On Sep 8, 2016, at 3:29 PM, David M. Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Would it be possible to include a method like this (pretty old patch I had laying around):
>>
>> diff --git a/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ClassLoader.java b/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ClassLoader.java
>> index 1bb1580..3def10e 100644
>> --- a/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ClassLoader.java
>> +++ b/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ClassLoader.java
>> @@ -469,6 +477,15 @@ public abstract class ClassLoader {
>>         return lock;
>>     }
>>
>> +    /**
>> +     * Determine whether this class loader is parallel-capable.
>> +     *
>> +     * @return {@code true} if the class loader is parallel-capable, {@code false} otherwise
>> +     */
>> +    protected final boolean isParallelCapable() {
>> +        return ParallelLoaders.isRegistered(getClass());
>> +    }
>> +
>
> This seems a fine method to add.  I think it can be a public method (I don’t see any reason it has to be protected)

Great!  Since it's such a small method though, would it be possible to 
just roll this change into some other changeset?  I can't really 
contribute the change in any form other than a patch right now.

Thanks.
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