8049422: Remove @jdk.Exported

[Chris Hegarty]

On 7 Jan 2016, at 11:15, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> It's time to remove @jdk.Exported.
> 
> As background, this annotation was introduced by JEP 179 in JDK 8 to document the supportness of JDK-specific APIs. It will become redundant and confusing once we bring the module system into JDK 9. The proposal in JEP 261 is to remove it and it seems saner to remove this in jdk9/dev in advance rather than trying to carry this in jigsaw/jake.
> 
> The webrevs (top, jdk, langtools and nashorn repos) are here:
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8049422/

The change looks good to me Alan.

-Chris.

> The changes are trivial with all usages removed with
>   find src -name "*.java" -exec sed -i '/@jdk.Exported/d' {} \;
> 
> Skimming the .patch files should be enough to check for any blunders.
> 
> The only "real" changes are the hg rm of Exported.java in the jdk repo, and the updates to modules.xml and the package list for the javadoc build in the top-level repo
> 
> Note that jdeps has already been changed to not use this annotation so there are no jdeps changes required, only residual comments in one test.
> 
> I think I got everything. Joe Darcy created this annotation and knows this removal is coming, I'll at least wait for Joe to review before pushing this change.
> 
> -Alan.