the fate of java.dyn

Ben Evans benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 13:57:56 PDT 2011


I say get rid of vestigial packages / names as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Ben

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:02 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:

> OpenJDK b135 has JVM support for the new package name java.dyn.invoke, and
> therefore the new API names can be used with a b135 JVM plus a suitable
> -Xbootclasspath patch.  In b136 or b137 the JDK changes will follow, so it
> will work "out of the box".
>
> Here's my question:  Does anybody care if we delete JVM support for
> java.dyn in the very next OpenJDK build?  That's what we'd prefer to do.
>
> -- John
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