[security-dev 01438]: Re: Ending support for Java 1.1 policy files

[Vincent Ryan]

The webrev for this change is available at:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vinnie/6876158/webrev.00/

It removes dependencies on several long deprecated classes.

A later changeset will follow this to remove Identity Database options
from the jarsigner and keytool command-line utilities.



Vincent Ryan wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> More than 11 years ago we introduced a new format for Java policy files
> in Java 1.2. We deprecated but retained support for the old Java 1.1
> format. I'd like to propose that we now remove support for that legacy
> format.
> 
> This would allow us to eliminate several hard-coded dependencies on a
> set of classes which were deprecated long ago. The change would form
> part of our JDK modularization effort.
> 
> Thanks.