Code review request: 7064075 Security libraries don't build with javac -Xlint:all,-deprecation -Werror

[Sean Mullan]

On 7/18/11 1:17 PM, Alexandre Boulgakov wrote:
> Please see my responses in-line.
> 
> Thanks for reviewing!
> 
> -Sasha
> 
> On 7/15/2011 6:18 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> On 07/15/11 01:19 PM, Sean Mullan wrote:
>>> All the changes look good. I only have a couple of questions/comments:
>>>
>>> 1) How did you calculate the serialVersionUID for the classes that 
>>> had omitted
>>> this field? Ideally you want to calculate it on a previous version of 
>>> the class,
>>> for compatibility reasons. This is especially important for 
>>> Serializable objects
>>> that are exposed via public APIs.
>>
>> I added serialVersionUID to a bunch of public java lang/net/util 
>> classes a wile back. I used jdk/bin/serialver to generate the 
>> serialVersionUID and verified that it was the same for previous 
>> versions of the class back to when the class was originally added. Not 
>> such a problem when you have archived jdk's back to 1.1.8 in /java/re 
>> in the US domain! Maybe Sasha could do something similar.
> I used jdk/bin/serialver from JDK 7. Should I check if it's the same for 
> when the classes were originally added?

Yes, if it is the same as when the class was originally added to the JDK that
would most likely mean it has not changed since and it is safe to use.

--Sean

>>
>> -Chris.
>>
>>>
>>> 2) Consider adding a comment explaining the 
>>> "@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")"
>>> annotations
> That sounds good. I'll post another webrev once I've added the comments.
>>>
>>> --Sean
>>>
>>> On 7/12/11 4:16 PM, Alexandre Boulgakov wrote:
>>>> Since yesterday's webrev, I've changed some unchecked casts to use
>>>> Class<T>.cast(Object) instead, per Dave's suggestion.
>>>> Updated webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/7064075.1/
>>>>
>>>> Also, the original webrev was posted under the wrong bug ID, so it's
>>>> been moved to http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/7064075/.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sasha
>>>>
>>>> On 7/12/2011 1:03 PM, Brad Wetmore wrote:
>>>>> Sean/Valerie/Max/Xuelei,
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Brad,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you please review these changes?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm swamped again, can one of you take a look at Sasha's changes?
>>>>>
>>>>> Brad
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/11/2011 1:56 PM, Alexandre Boulgakov wrote:
>>>>>> Hello Brad,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you please review these changes?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bug detail: 
>>>>>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7064075
>>>>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/7076075/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Summary:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      * Small changes to Java files to remove most build warnings.
>>>>>>      * Small changes to relevant makefiles to prevent 
>>>>>> reintroduction of
>>>>>>        removed warnings.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Sasha Boulgakov
>>>>>>