RFR: 8347433: Deprecate XML interchange in java.management/javax/management/modelmbean/DescriptorSupport for removal [v3]

[Daniel Fuchs]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:59:15 GMT, Kevin Walls <kevinw at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> DescriptorSupport has a constructor and a method providing creation from, and export to, XML.
>> 
>> These are unused in the JDK and have no practical known examples of usage.  XML parsing is best done by an independent implementation, not this class.
>
> Kevin Walls has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 10 additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - constructor->method in deprecated tag
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into 8347433_DescriptorSupport_deprecate_XML
>  - comments
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into 8347433_DescriptorSupport_deprecate_XML
>  - (c)
>  - typo
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into 8347433_DescriptorSupport_deprecate_XML
>  - Also XMLParseException
>  - RMMB comment update
>  - Deprecate XML interchange in DescriptorSupport

src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/modelmbean/DescriptorSupport.java line 978:

> 976:      * thrown.
> 977:      * @deprecated This method exists for historical reasons.  If
> 978:      * reading from XML is required, it should be implemented externally.

Technically here it should be `writing to XML` - I don't think changing that would require re-submitting the CSR - but maybe @jddarcy could confirm?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23038#discussion_r1977207451