RFR(S): 8244668: Remove SA's javascript support

[sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com]

Looks good to me.

-Sundar

On 27/05/20 5:01 am, Chris Plummer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review the following changes to fully remove javascript support 
> from SA. It's been non-functional since JDK 9 and there are no plans 
> to support it anymore.
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8244668
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~cjplummer/8244668/webrev.00/index.html
>
> If anyone thinks a CSR is needed for this, please let me know. There's 
> no spec involved. The support was always pretty ad hoc, with some 
> supporting documentation in the source tree in jsdb.html [1], but 
> which doesn't appear itself to have ever been released.
>
> There was one menu item in the hsdb GUI that used javascript (and as a 
> result caused an exception). I was having a little trouble deciphering 
> what it actually does, but it appears to allow you to write some 
> javascript to produce (and filter) a list of objects, and then display 
> the list of objects in a window where you could inspect them further. 
> Since there is no way to do something similar in java without allowing 
> the user to provide hsdb extensions in the form of .class files (or 
> support writing and compiling java classes from within hsdb), I just 
> removed the hsdb feature by removing the menu item and supporting code.
>
> thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> [1] 
> https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/raw-file/a7e42c260029/src/jdk.hotspot.agent/doc/jsdb.html