RFR: Backport of JDK-8044135: Add API to start JMX agent from attach framework

[Staffan Larsen]

…aaaand the link: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8044398-8039173-8044135-jdk8u/webrev.00/

/Staffan

On 3 sep 2014, at 14:25, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com> wrote:

> This is a review for a backport of JDK-8044135 to jdk8u. This fix had a few dependencies that also needed backporting, so included in this review are the following fixes from JDK9:
> 
> • 8044135 Add API to start JMX agent from attach framework (jdk)
> • 8039173 Propagate errors from Diagnostic Commands as exceptions in the attach framework (jdk)
> • 8044398 Attach code should propagate errors in Diagnostic Commands as errors  (hotspot)
> 
> The only significant change from the version in JDK 9 is that startManagementAgent() and startLocalManagementAgent() in VirtualMachine.java have "@since 1.8" (instead of 1.9).
> 
> After speaking with the maintainers and gatekeepers, I plan to push this to the jdk8u-hs-dev repository.
> 
> Thanks,
> /Staffan
>