8029904: Remove com.sun.security.auth.callback.DialogCallbackHandler

[Sean Mullan]

I have no objections to removing this class. Fix looks fine. I'm ok with 
adding Bernd's suggestions as well, as they are both trivial cleanups.

--Sean

On 12/10/2013 11:46 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> DialogCallbackHandler is the sample Swing based CallbackHandler in the
> JDK-specific API to JAAS. It's problematic for our modularity efforts
> and as folks may recall, we deprecated it in JDK 8 with a warning to say
> that it would be removed in a future release. It was also flagged in JEP
> 162 as an impediment to the JDK modularization.
>
> I'd like to get the second phase of this work (ie: remove it) into JDK 9
> early to give every opportunity for folks that folks that might have a
> dependency a chance find an alternative solution.
>
> The webrev with the proposed changes is here:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8029904/webrev/
>
> With these changes then all tests in the jdk_security jtreg group are
> passing. There will clearly be additional work to do beyond the code
> changes (like the JAAS guide) but that is for later.
>
> -Alan