Use of JDK interanl ASM vs external

[Ben Evans]

OK - I'm going to bite.

Why are we doing this? If we're shipping a general purpose bytecode
manipulation library, then why is it private?

Surely this should become an official, supported & public API?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:
>
> On 02/17/2015 08:30 PM, Mark Roos wrote:
>
> I see that jdk8 now includes a copy of ASM (jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm).
>
> Is it recommended to use that instance vs suppling a copy with my
> application?
>
> thanks
> mark
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> These classes are not the one you are looking for :)
>
> As the 'internal' in the package name suggest, these classes are intended to
> be used by the JDK classes only, and not by anyone else.
> BTW, these classes are not visible anymore in jdk9 (even by reflection).
>
> regards,
> Rémi
>
>
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