RFR: 8332070: Convert package.html files in `java.management` to package-info.java

Nizar Benalla nbenalla at openjdk.org
Sun May 26 19:52:00 UTC 2024


On Fri, 24 May 2024 18:11:18 GMT, Nizar Benalla <nbenalla at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is a simple noreg cleanup. The motivation was that I noticed javac doesn't recognise package.html files well.
> 
> Some of the contents of the `package.html` files (and code in the package) may be outdated, but I think it is out of scope for this PR.
> 
> I have also changed three `{@link }` usages with the `href` that would have been in the generated HTML.
> Because referencing an element from an other module wouldn't work even when using the `module/package.class#member`, if the `module-info.java` file does not have "require `<name>`".
> 
> I am referring to line 69 in 
> `src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/monitor/package-info.java`
> and lines 90 and 120 in 
> `src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/remote/package-info.java`
> 
> Adding 2 dependencies just for 3 links didn't seem right.
> 
> edit: passes all tests, the failing test is a github actions issue

I don't think that is a goal.

As for why I didn't use Markdown here, it would have made potentially backporting these changes more difficult.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19399#issuecomment-2132376943


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