RFR [9] Inet[4|6]Address class and fieldID initialization in networking native code

[Chris Hegarty]

And a link to the webrev that can people can access:

  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/nativeInetCleanup/webrev/

-Chris.

On 02/04/2014 04:01 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This change is mainly about clean up of the networking native code.
> There are a number of places that cache JNI global references to the
> Inet[4|6]Address classes, as well as caching their respective field IDs.
> It is also difficult to correctly handle propagation of possible JNI
> method invocation failures, from the (get|set)Inet[4|6]Address_XXX methods.
>
> As it happens Inet[4|6]Address.c already makes these classes and field
> IDs available [1] [2] [3]. It is then a small matter of ensuring that
> they get initialized from any entry point that may use them, in the
> various socket/InetAddress/network interface implementation, as well as
> NIO and SCTP.
>
> Webrev:
>
> http://chhegar.ie.oracle.com/chhegar/repos/jdk9/dev/serial/jdk/nativeInetCleanup.01/webrev/
>
>
> -Chris.
>
> [1]
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/tip/src/share/native/java/net/InetAddress.c
>
> [2]
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/tip/src/share/native/java/net/Inet4Address.c
>
> [3]
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/tip/src/share/native/java/net/Inet6Address.c
>