<Swing Dev> RFR: 8268087: Update documentation of the JPasswordField

[Phil Race]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 13:08:08 GMT, Alexander Zvegintsev <azvegint at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Some useful documentation was added to the JPasswordField.
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> src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/JPasswordField.java line 68:
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>> 66:  * handling confidential information such as the password text, refer to the
>> 67:  * relevant section at
>> 68:  * <a href="https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/seccodeguide.html">
> 
> We might want to use the link with an anchor to the specific section, e.g.:
> https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/seccodeguide.html#2-2

If we want to allow that the representation of what was typed is anything the UI decides then let's start from scratch,

The {@code JPasswordField} will not show the original characters that were typed, instead displaying alternative text or graphics.
However this doesn't prevent... [and then the rest is as originally proposed]

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4296