<Swing Dev> RFR 8250853:Address reliance on default constructors in the javax.swing APIs

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Looks fine.

On 19.08.2020 01:40, Prasanta Sadhukhan wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Please review a fix for issue where it was seen that several classes rely on default constructors as part of their public API.
> 
> It's to be noted that "A no-arg public constructor is generated by the compiler for a class if it does not declare an explicit constructor. While convenient, this is inappropriate for many kinds of formal classes, both because the constructor will have no javadoc and because the constructor may be unintended."
> 
> For the JDK, classes intended to be used outside of the JDK, public classes in exported packages, should not rely on default constructors.
> 
> Proposed fix is to add explicit public no-arg constructors for public classes and protected no-arg constructor for public abstract classes for javax.swing module (as one part of overalll java.desktop change)
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8250853
> 
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psadhukhan/8250853/webrev.0/
> 
> CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8252021
> 
> Regards
> Prasanta
> 


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Best regards, Sergey.