JEP 321: HTTP Client (Standard)

[dalibor topic]

On 05.12.2017 14:48, David Lloyd wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:48 AM, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 04.12.2017 22:56, David Lloyd wrote:
>>>
>>> saying "Here it is, it's all done, what do you think?".  I've
>>> certainly never had opportunity to try it out: given its status as an
>>> incubating module present only in OpenJDK, the only people who are
>>> really in a position to try it out are those using OpenJDK (as opposed
>>> to other JDKs)
>>
>> That's not quite correct. The jdk.incubator.httpclient module is part of
>> Oracle JDK 9, as well. It has been part of the JDK 9 Early Access builds
>> since about a year ago, afaik. The Early Access builds can be found at
>> jdk.java.net, fwiw.
> 
> Sure, but that's all the same ecosystem.  An organization tied to,
> say, the IBM JDK won't have access to these.

Fwiw, IBM's OpenJ9 builds for JDK 9 would seem to include this incubator 
module as well. I'd naively assume the same to be the case for Azul's 
JDK 9 builds, etc.

>> This seems to be a more general criticism of the incubator module mechanism
>> as defined in JEP 11, rather than directed at this API specifically. It
>> wasn't raised on jdk-dev when JEP 11 was discussed about a year ago, fwiw.
> 
> Of course; sometimes a thing must be tried before the weaknesses are
> apparent.  If we all designed perfect things from the start, we
> wouldn't need standards and evolution. :)

Touché -

The sample size of one for modules going through the incubation module 
mechanism may still be too small for a categorical critique, though. ;)

cheers,
dalibor topic
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