<Sound Dev> [9] Review Request: Find and load default.sf2 as the default soundbank on Linux

[Omair Majid]

Hi,

Thank you for reviewing this change!

* Sergey Bylokhov <Sergey.Bylokhov at oracle.com> [2015-10-09 07:44]:
> I do not see a problem to integrate such changes,

Great! If the idea sounds sensible, I would be happy to tweak the
implementation based on your suggestions.

> since I assume you will
> plan to backport it to jdk8.

Indeed. I hope to backport this all the way to OpenJDK 7.

> But later in jdk9 however probably it will be
> better to move such information to the configuration file
> JAVA_HOME/conf/sound.properties

Sure, that makes sense. Someone else had suggested making this
information tweakable and using the sound.properties file for this makes
a lot of sense. I suppose we couldn't do this with 8, though, since the
list of supported keys in this file is frozen for 8?

> I have one note about the fix: the usage of libaudio.exists() vs
> defaultSoundFont.isFile(). I think we should use the same call in all cases,
> the question is which one. Also it is interesting should we check that the
> file is readable.

I don't have a strong opinion here. isFile() is basically a superset of
exists() and prevents us from trying to open a directory accidentally.
In general, I think it makes sense to be more defensive. Shall I add
them to this patch? Or shall I make minimal adjustments and post a
separate patch to make this more defensive?

Thanks,
Omair

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