RFR 8209416: Refactoring GetPropertyAction calls in JGSS
Weijun Wang
weijun.wang at oracle.com
Mon Aug 27 11:25:11 UTC 2018
Would it be possible (in the future) for 2 modules to use the same name for a private package? If yes, we can dup the sun.security.action classes into java.security.jgss without having to modify all calls.
--Max
> On Aug 27, 2018, at 5:13 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 13/08/2018 20:11, Sean Mullan wrote:
>> :
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>> 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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