Hi Chris, I'm somewhat surprised to see ReflectionFactory on that list. Can you share more details around its external use?
cheers /Joel On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 at 16:15 Chris Hegarty <chris.hega...@oracle.com> wrote: > Paul, > > I cannot address your general question, but I guess it might be motivated > by some of my recent preparatory work for JEP 260 [1]. This JEP proposes > to expose a small number of critical API’s that are in the sun.misc and > sun.reflect namespace. Anything not deemed critical should be removed > from these packages, since it should not be exposed. There is also a > significant amount of technical debt in these packages. > > -Chris. > > [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132928 > > On 15 Dec 2015, at 15:09, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote: > > > I have a general question prompted by the many classes moved from sun.* > to > > jdk.*. Once JDK 9 delivers on the Module System and internals are no > longer > > exposed, is it planned to eventually migrate away from the sun.* legacy > > namespace in later JDK versions? > > > > Cheers, > > Paul > >
