RFR: 8267108: Alternate Subject.getSubject and doAs APIs that do not depend on Security Manager APIs [v2]

[Weijun Wang]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:49:18 GMT, Sean Mullan <mullan at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/java.base/share/classes/javax/security/auth/Subject.java line 296:
>> 
>>> 294:      *       which is equivalent to
>>> 295:      *       {@code Subject.getSubject(AccessController.getContext())}
>>> 296:      *       by default in this implementation.
>> 
>> I don't think you need the words "by default".
>
> I suggest changing the last sentence to two sentences: "However, obtaining a Subject is useful independent of the Security Manager. Thus, a replacement API named {@link #current()} has been added which can be used to obtain the current subject."
> 
> I don't think you need to describe the default implementation here because it is hard to explain that succinctly -- just keep that info in `current`.

OK.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5024