Understanding the com.sun.* APIs being (ab)used by the community
Stefan Fuchs
snfuchs at gmx.de
Wed Jun 3 18:54:48 UTC 2015
Hi Jonathan,
thank you for your effort.
Note however, that the output of the current version of jdeps may be
incomplete.
See https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8077349 Update jdeps to
recognize JavaFX internal packages,
which seems not to be fixed yet.
Stefan
> Hi folks,
>
> I've written a tool that analyses the output of JDeps. This allows for
> me to quickly understand what com.sun.* APIs are being used by
> projects. It basically just gives a tally of each com.sun.* class that
> is being used, given a directory of files that are output from JDeps
> (where each file is the output from running JDeps against a single jar
> file). The more of these JDeps text files I have, the more data I can
> have about what APIs are being (ab)used.
>
> Also, before I go further, lets try to keep this simple - I'd rather
> not have this discussion get political about the merits of modularity,
> choosing which APIs are most important, etc, etc, etc! I'm just a
> lowly engineer trying to make things as good as I can for you all. The
> remainder of the political discussion can start in ~2 weeks when I'm
> on vacation ;-)
>
> If you want to give me more data, please do the following from your
> computer, and then email me (off-list!) the resulting text file. My
> example command line instruction is what I run against Scene Builder,
> but please don't send me the output against your Scene Builder jar - I
> want to know what the output is against your projects.
>
> Here's the command line instruction (for my Windows 8 machine, your
> mileage may vary):
>
> jdeps -v SceneBuilder-8.0.0.jar > SceneBuilder-8.0.0.txt
>
> Send me (again, off-list!) the resulting text file. I don't want your
> jar files or anything else, I don't think my inbox could handle it :-)
>
> Thanks,
> -- Jonathan
>
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