RFR [14] JDK-8227024 : Remove the deprecated javax.security.cert APIs

[Xuelei Fan]

Thanks for looking into the update.  The "forRemoval=true" tag was added 
in March 2010 (JDK-8160247).  It make sense to me to postpone the 
removal until JDK 15.

I re-targeted the RFE and CSR to JDK 15.

Thanks,
Xuelei

On 7/8/2019 2:33 PM, Stuart Marks wrote:
> Hi, thanks for asking about this.
> 
> There's not much process, but there unfortunately is some that isn't 
> quite written down yet. :-) Essentially something must be deprecated for 
> removal in some release prior to it actually being removed in a 
> subsequent release. In the "old days" of multi-year releases, marking 
> for removal in one release and removing it in the next seemed 
> reasonable. In the new model of six-month releases, removing something 
> in the very next release seems too soon. We're currently thinking that 
> typically one should remove a feature no sooner than the second release 
> after it's marked for removal, unless there's a compelling reason to 
> remove it more quickly.
> 
> In this case the bug report (JDK-8227024) says that the APIs in question 
> were marked for removal in JDK 9. But Xuelei's message says that they 
> were deprecated (ordinarily, i.e., not-for-removal) in JDK 9, and then 
> deprecated for removal in JDK 13. That looks right, since the JDK 12 
> docs don't mention deprecation for removal.
> 
> 
> I also note that the deprecation annotation says since="9" which is the 
> release in which deprecation first appeared, but not the release in 
> which forRemoval=true was added. It isn't very clear whether this is the 
> date of first deprecation or date at which forRemoval=true was added. I 
> should think about clarifying the spec in that regard.
> 
> In any case, it's probably premature to remove these APIs from JDK 14. 
> If it's reasonable to do so, I'd suggest postponing the removal until 
> JDK 15.
> 
> s'marks
> 
> On 7/8/19 12:28 PM, Bradford Wetmore wrote:
>> I'm not completely up on the nuances of the overall removal process, 
>> but codewise it looks good.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>>
>> On 7/8/2019 8:02 AM, Xuelei Fan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please review the following update for JDK 14:
>>>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~xuelei/8227024/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> and the CSR:
>>>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8227395
>>>
>>> The javax.security.cert APIs were deprecated in Java SE 9 and marked 
>>> for removal in Java SE 13. Applications should use the 
>>> java.security.cert APIs instead.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Xuelei