<Swing Dev> Public API for internal Swing classes.

[Andrej Golovnin]

Hi Alexander,

in our application we make use of

sun.font.FontUtilities.fontSupportsDefaultEncoding(Font)
sun.font.FontUtilities.getCompositeFontUIResource(Font)

to obtain an instance of CompositeFont.

Best regards,
Andrej Golovnin

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Alexander Scherbatiy
<alexandr.scherbatiy at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> According to the JEP 200: The Modular JDK (see
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/200)
> we expect that the standard Java SE modules will not export any internal
> packages.
>
> It means that classes from internal packages (like sun.swing) will not be
> accessible.
>
> For example:
>   sun.swing.FilePane
>   sun.swing.SwingUtilities2
>   sun.swing.sun.swing.plaf.synth.SynthIcon
> and others.
>
>
> Please, let us known if you are using the internal Swing API and it is not
> possible to replace it by public API.
>
> There are some known requests:
>
>   JDK-8132119 Provide public API for text related methods in SwingUtilities2
>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132119
>
>   JDK-8132120 Provide public API for screen menu bar support on MacOS
>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132120
>
>   JDK-6274842 RFE: Provide a means for a custom look and feel to use desktop
> font antialiasing settings.
>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6274842
>
>
> If you don't know if you use these types (because you use 3rd party jars)
> you can use the JDK 8 "jdeps" tool to find such dependencies :-
>
> ~/jdk1.8/bin/jdeps
> Usage: jdeps <options> <classes...>
> where <classes> can be a pathname to a .class file, a directory, a JAR
> file, or a fully-qualified class name
>
> Thanks,
> Alexandr.
>