On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 01:55:49 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <s...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This patch ensure launcher won't crash JVM for the new static Methods from >> local/anonymous class on MacOS. >> >> As @dholmes-ora pointed out in the analysis, this is a MacOS specific bug >> when the launcher trying to grab class name to be displayed as the >> Application name on the menu. >> >> The fix is to not setting name, test shows that GUI java application shows >> 'bin' as the application name. It's possible for us to set the name to >> something more friendly, for example, "Java", but I am not sure that should >> be launcher's responsibility to choose such a default name. It seems to me >> the consumer of the JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_%d environment variable should be >> responsible to pick such name in case the environment variable is not set. > > This bug is similar to https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8076264, and > the fix looks fine. > Maybe the AWT folk should decide what name should be displayed in this > case. The canonical name was chosen when all main classes had to have a > canonical name. So perhaps a simple name will suffice in the case where > there is no canonical name? This is not the last attempt to set the name, the JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_ variable is used in the middle of the name selection, there are some others. And the "bin" is selected by some of the next step, I agree it is not a friendly name that could be improved. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2999
