Understanding the com.sun.* APIs being (ab)used by the community

[Stefan Fuchs]

Oh, of course, never mind then.

Jdeps output from our application is on its way to Jonathan.

Stefan
> Right. They won't be flagged as problematic by the tool, but Jonathan 
> knows which ones are -- namely, any JavaFX package that doesn't begin 
> with "javafx."
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> Nicolai Parlog wrote:
>>  Hi Stefan,
>>
>> running jdeps as shown in Jonathans post (with "-v") "[p]rints all
>> class-level dependencies"[1]. This includes the ones which will not be
>> accessible in Java 9.
>>
>> The bug you cite is based on a missing definition of some packages as
>> internal API, so running with -jdkinternals will not list them as
>> problematic.
>>
>>  so long ... Nicolai
>>
>>
>> [1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/unix/jdeps.htm
>> l
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>>
>>
>> On 03.06.2015 20:54, Stefan Fuchs wrote:
>>> 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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