jmx-dev RFR 8143047: Re-examine javax/management/ImplementationVersion/ImplVersionTest.java

[Alan Bateman]

On 05/01/2016 13:52, Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:
> On 4.1.2016 21:26, Eamonn McManus wrote:
>> I think this test should either be deleted or reduced to a simple check
>> that the MBeanServerDelegate's ImplementationVersion attribute is equal
>> to System.getProperty("java.runtime.version"). The whole business of
>> starting up a separate process and checking things with security
>> managers and so on is completely obsolete.
>
> I would leave this for SQE to decide. Removing the security manager 
> part would change the semantics of the test.
>
> I would suggest dealing with this in a separate issue not to block the 
> effort of removing references to 'sun.boot.class.path' for jigsaw.
Just to say that sun.boot.class.path is already removed in the jake 
forest. I created JDK-8143047 to re-examine this test as it looked like 
it was obsolete and could be deleted. So no urgently fixing this, it's 
not blocking anything.

-Alan