RFR 8171380: Remove exports from jdk.jlink

Sundararajan Athijegannathan sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com
Mon Jan 16 16:30:17 UTC 2017


+1

-Sundar

On 16/01/17, 9:16 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> The Jlink Plugin API is not going to be supported in 9, so
> should not be exported [1], for use by third parties. Besides
> the removal of the export, most of the changes are adding
> @modules tags to existing tests.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8171380.00/
>
> Note: Sundar will follow up with 8172864 [2] to remove the
> '--plugin-module-path'. Custom plugins can be written and
> deployed on the class path using the --add-exports command
> line, if required.
>
> This change depends on fix in jtreg b05 [3], so bumps the
> minimum required version.
>
> -Chris.
>
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171380
> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172864
> [3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/code-tools/jtreg/rev/f79ef1ecc483


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