8039253: Remove undocumented com.oracle.net

[Chris Hegarty]

This looks fine to me. Thanks Alan.

-Chris.

On 04/04/14 12:31, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> As part of our long standing effort to prepare the platform for modules
> then we need to go through the various JDK-specific APIs and see which
> APIs are really "exported", supported, documented, etc.
>
> One odd one is com.oracle.net and I'd like to propose that we remove it.
> The build doesn't generate its javadoc and to my knowledge it has never
> been documented or supported. I'm not aware of any applications or 3rd
> party libraries using it. Note that removing this API does not
> disruptive the SDP support in the JDK as this does not use this API.
> Further down the road then if the JDK really needs an API to explicitly
> create SDP Sockets then it would be more appropriate to create a new
> jdk.net API for this (or alternatively come up with factory or other
> means to do this).
>
> The webrev with the proposed changes is here:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8039253/webrev/
>
> I will leave it for a few days before doing anything on this.
>
> -Alan.