Adding asm to JDK 8

[Jim Holmlund]

On 2/2/2012 9:08 PM, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Do you plan to remove one already existing in the
> rt.jar (it comes from jax-ws)?
>
> com.sun.xml.internal.ws.org.objectweb.asm
>
I don't plan to remove that myself, but jaxws will be notified and urged to remove their version.
> Do you have permission to include one particular version or
> plan to sync it regularly?
I plan to sync it from time to time.
- jjh

>
> -Dmitry
>
> On 2012-02-03 07:13, David Holmes wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> I added build-dev to the cc as this is of general interest. Actually
>> before doing this a heads-up should go out to all jdk8-dev I think.
>>
>> One question: are there any cross-compilation issues with building this?
>> I'm assuming not but want to check.
>>
>> Okay two questions :) : do you know when this will get modularized and
>> show up in the jigsaw repositories?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>> On 3/02/2012 9:29 AM, Jim Holmlund wrote:
>>> This is just a heads up that we are in the process of adding
>>> http://asm.ow2.org/
>>>
>>> to jdk 8 as a new top level repo. This new repo contains the asm source
>>> code, with a few mods that are needed to build/run it in our
>>> environment. The new repo also contains the build files needed to
>>> participate in our forest builds. The main building is done by the asm
>>> build.xml, with a Makefile wrapper around that in order to participate
>>> in the forest build. This Makefile dynamically renames the asm packages
>>> by prepending 'org.openjdk'.
>>>
>>> The forest build handles the asm repo in the same was as the other
>>> repos, eg, corba. The asm repo is built just after langtools, and then
>>> the resulting .class files are known in the jdk build and are put into
>>> rt.jar.
>>>
>>> The changes for this are:
>>> - These files are modified/added:
>>> M Makefile
>>> M make/Defs-internal.gmk
>>> M make/README.pre-components
>>> A make/asm-rules.gmk
>>> M make/jdk-rules.gmk
>>> M make/sanity-rules.gmk
>>> M make/scripts/hgforest.sh
>>>
>>> - the new asm repo is built just after langtools
>>>
>>> - these files in the jdk repo are modified/added:
>>> M THIRD_PARTY_README
>>> M make/Makefile
>>> M make/common/Release.gmk
>>> M make/common/internal/ImportComponents.gmk
>>> M make/common/shared/Defs-control.gmk
>>> M make/common/shared/Defs.gmk
>>> M make/common/shared/Sanity-Settings.gmk
>>> A make/common/internal/Defs-asm.gmk
>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitCommons.java
>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitOptimizer.java
>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitTreeAnalysis.java
>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitUtil.java
>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/OmitXml.java
>>> A test/org/openjdk/org/objectweb/asm/RequiredAsmClasses.java
>>>
>>> These changes have not been reviewed and thus are subject to change.
>>> Hopefully, this work can be finished in the next couple weeks. But where
>>> have we heard that before.
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you have any questions or need more info.
>>>
>>> - jjh
>>>
>>>
>>>
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