Request for Review: 6893238

Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems Ireland Christopher.Hegarty at Sun.COM
Wed Oct 21 04:03:46 PDT 2009


CR 6893238: Move NTLM and SPNEGO implementations into separate packages

Webrev:
   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/6893238/webrev.0/webrev/

Following 688259, NTLM and SPNEGO authentication implementations are now 
runtime dependencies. There is no reason that their implementations 
should reside in the same package as the protocol handler.

Moving them out of sun.net.www.protocol.http and into say, 
sun.net.www.protocol.http.ntlm and sun.net.www.protocol.http.spnego will 
simplify the modularization effort by making it easier to define module 
definitions (by package name as opposed to a regular/glob expression). 
These schemes will not be in the base package.

-Chris.



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