JDK-8280491 and JEP411

[Sean Mullan]

See also https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8296244

--Sean

On 6/16/23 1:48 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 16/06/2023 03:48, Peter Firmstone wrote:
>> :
>>
>> As it isn't yet clear how a Subject context will be preserved across
>> threads in future version of OpenJDK, (currently we use the
>> AccessControlContext for that), for example we capture the existing
>> context, to establish TLS connections in call back communications for
>> network event listeners.
>>
> 
> It's good to think about a Subject.current/callAs re-implemented to use
> ScopedValue [1], currently in preview with JEP 446 in Java 21.
> ScopedValue allows for sharing in structured concurrency contexts.
> 
> -Alan
> 
> [1]
> https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk21/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/ScopedValue.html
> [2] https://openjdk.org/jeps/446