Status of Anno Class loader with constant patches?

[Rémi Forax]

On 12/26/2010 08:33 PM, Mark Roos wrote:
> We are working on a port of Smalltalk to the MLVM.  For this we were 
> thinking of using the
> constant patch feature of the anonymous class loader in java.dyn.anon 
> to create constant pool
> entries with instances of our Smalltalk types.
>
> Is this feature expected to continue? If so in which package will it 
> be located in the JDK7
> release?
>
> If not then I assume that we have to hold these constants as static 
> fields and create an initializer.
> Any other suggestions?
>
> thanks for all of the good work
>
> mark roos

Hi Mark,
the anonymous classloader is a Hotspot specific feature,
jdk classes are in package sun.dyn.anon
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/file/tip/src/share/classes/sun/dyn/anon/

Also to enable it, you need to use this flag:
-XX:+AnonymousClasses

This patch was not touched since a long time, so you may espect some 
troubles,
as far as I remember, it only works with host class that is null.

I really hope to that the JSR 292 expert group will standardize this API
during the JDK8 timeframe.

Rémi

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