Custom stream extensions

[Arul Dhesiaseelan]

Thanks for that hint. It works for me. I believe it is a valid case to use
-Xbootclasspath/p atleast in my case :-)



On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

>     Right.  During initial development, all these classes were public,
>>     mostly for convenience of testing.
>>
>
> Just to give you an idea of how hard we make life for ourselves...
>
> The "standard" testing trick for unit-testing package-private classes is
> to have a parallel source hierarchy for tests:
>
> src/com/foo/Blah.java
> ...
> test/com/foo/BlahTest.java
>
> so the tests can be in the same package as the source.  But, that doesn't
> work for the JDK.  Unfortunately, you can't load java.* classes except from
> the bootclasspath.  Which means that big chunks of the tests, along with
> framework pieces like testng, end up on the bootclasspath in our test
> environment.  Which is a pain (and also means we're testing in a slightly
> different environment than our customers will run.)
>
> So this is why the classes were all public until we bit the bullet and
> reorg'ed the tests into the appropriate bootclasspath/non-**bootclasspath
> buckets.
>
> I've got it on my list to see if I can shave down that set of
> bootclasspath classes further.  Which will almost certainly require nasty
> tricks :(
>
>