J2SE est mort, vive Java SE!

[Sean Mullan]

On 11/27/2013 03:41 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 27/11/2013 00:29, David Holmes wrote:
>> On 27/11/2013 8:49 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>>> Now that we've removed the old build system, can we please now
>>> remove the last vestiges of Sun's pre-Java 5 naming scheme?
>>
>> There are also a bunch of security libs with j2 in their names -
>> should these be renamed too, or will that cause too many compatibility
>> issues?

What security libs have j2 in their names?

> The security providers have vestiges of Sun in the provider names (SUN,
> SunPKCS11, SunJSSE ..) but these are documented and I don't think can be
> changed (although it not recommended to select services from specific
> providers). To my knowledge, the names of the shared libraries are not
> something that anyone should depend on, they are purely an
> implementation detail. I'm sure someone in the security area with jump
> to review any proposed changes here but I wouldn't expect it to cause
> problems.

Changing the provider names is a very high risk change to make this late 
in JDK 8. If we decided to change them, I would recommend deprecating 
(but not removing) the existing Sun* providers for at least one major 
release to allow apps to transition.

Removing "sun" from the names of the JAR files (ex: sunjce_provider.jar, 
sunpkcs11.jar, sunec.jar) is probably less risky from a compatibility 
perspective, but I would still want to think about it some more and find 
out if this would break anyone. Offhand, it  feels like this type of 
change would be risky for JDK 8.

--Sean