Java 9 build 118 is hiding some documented & public classes from unnamed module

Robert Muir rcmuir at gmail.com
Sun May 22 20:54:58 UTC 2016


Yes, sorry to be clear, DatatypeConverter base64 stuff is the same
class/methods I am seeing.

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 21/05/2016 13:51, Robert Muir wrote:
>>
>> :
>> Just a little followup: It seems most code impacted by this change is
>> just using jaxb's base64 class. We've seen it not just with Solr but
>> with cloud libraries like AWS SDK and so on.
>>
>> I'm not really suggesting anything here but just mentioning it as a
>> possible "easy win" from usages I have seen.
>
> This is useful - thanks!  We've also had a few tests in the JDK test suite
> that needlessly used javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter because it defines
> methods such as printHexBinary.
>
> -Alan


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