JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 396: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals by Default

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Mon Nov 30 22:51:13 UTC 2020


2020/11/19 13:45:53 -0800, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 16:
> 
>   396: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals by Default
>        https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/396
> 
>   Summary: Strongly encapsulate all internal elements of the JDK by
>   default, except for critical internal APIs such as sun.misc.Unsafe.
>   Allow end users to choose the relaxed strong encapsulation that has
>   been the default since JDK9.
> 
> Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> are raised by 23:59 UTC on Thursday, 26 November, or if they’re raised
> and then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal
> [2] I’ll target this JEP to JDK 16.

Hearing no objection, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 16.

- Mark


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