Status of remaining com.sun.tools -> javax.tools?

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Thu Apr 30 20:34:19 UTC 2015


On 04/30/2015 01:21 PM, Chris Newland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it intended that the remaining private APIs in com.sun.tools will be
> converted to javax.tools service providers before JDK9 is released?
>
> E.g. com.sun.tools.javap.JavapTask as reported in bug
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6493691
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>

For javap, this would probably be a good idea.

For javah, the functionality has been superceded by "javac -h" and so it 
is less clear that it will be useful to publish JavahTask, as described 
in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6493692

-- Jon


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