RFR 8209416: Refactoring GetPropertyAction calls in JGSS

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon Aug 27 09:13:39 UTC 2018


On 13/08/2018 20:11, Sean Mullan wrote:
> :
>
> Also, this change puts more of a dependency on sun.security.action 
> which I think we want to avoid, as it would be nice to eventually stop 
> exporting sun.security.action so as to minimize the exports from 
> java.base to the java.security.jgss module. You can double-check with 
> Mandy or Alan on whether my line of thinking is correct on that.
We should at least drop the exporting to java.desktop. The exporting to  
java.security.jgss would be good to remove too but that module is deeply 
tied to the sun.security.* implementation and would be a significant 
effort to re-implement.

-Alan



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