8008793: SecurityManager.checkXXX behavior not specified for methods that check AWTPermission and AWT not present

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Feb 26 15:07:10 UTC 2013


On 25/02/2013 22:36, Mandy Chung wrote:
>
> :
>
> Right. Bidi is the main issue.  IMO we should deprecate these 3 
> methods in JDK 8 to at least clean up the SecurityManager dependency 
> as part of JEP 162 [1] and deal with other reflective dependencies 
> separately.  Anyway that is for modules and we can file a separate bug 
> for it.
You are right, there is a very good case to deprecate these now as it 
would make things easier post JDK 8. I'll create a bug for this now.

-Alan.



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