New candidate JEP: 403: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals

[Andrew Haley]

On 3/17/21 10:05 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/403
> 
>   Summary: Strongly encapsulate all internal elements of the JDK, except
>   for critical internal APIs such as sun.misc.Unsafe.  It will no longer
>   be possible to relax the strong encapsulation of internal elements
>   via a single command-line option, as was possible in JDKÂ 9 through
>   JDKÂ 16.

Looking at the JEP, I don't immediately see anything about long-term
use of illegal accesses in test code. There are a good many cases where
we need to test private and protected classes and fields, for example.
Is there a proposal to allow this?

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Andrew Haley  (he/him)
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