New candidate JEP: 451: Prepare to Disallow the Dynamic Loading of Agents

[Andrew Dinn]

On 13/05/2023 00:42, Gregg G Wonderly wrote:
> I find it petty that “we know best” or “it’s our way of the highway”  becoming a pretty common thing in the “evolution” of Java “by Oracle”.  The open-JDK community ultimately can end up quite distances from “Oracle Java”.
> 
> It seems there is an agenda and goal that Oracle is aiming for. My gut feeling is that it’s to get to a container like platform that smells like Java EE for small platforms where some of the most important features of Java will disappear or become even more burdensome.

Gregg, please do stop dramatizing this current discussion as some sort 
of Machiavellian plot by Oracle to browbeat first OpenJDK users and then 
non-Oracle OpenJDK project contributors into accepting Oracle's superior 
wisdom. No matter how lurid a picture such speculation attempts to paint 
you are not actually in the pit attending on some Revenger's tragedy. 
The more you spout guff like the text cited above the more you will 
deter anyone who actually contributes to this project from paying 
serious attention to whatever legitimate criticisms you might have to offer.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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