On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 23:55:00 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> The java.lang.classfile.components package was underused and had almost no > usage feedback; as a result, it did not caught attention during the preview > process of the Class-File API, until the late adoption when Class-File API is > sure to become finalized. In the previous rounds of reviews by other > engineers, most of the review efforts were devoted to other core modeling and > API classes, and components was largely omitted; a few questions were asked, > but no solution were proposed and the questions were forgotten. > > To compensate in such a short time to the stabilization of JDK 24, we propose > to temporarily move this package to jdk.internal instead. This allows us to > better consider the role of this package and its members. We considered to > continue previewing this package or making it an incubator module, but this > is currently not possible as JEP 484 does not provide for any preview API or > incubator module - to add such provisions, the JEP must be re-drafted and go > through the draft to target process, and now is too late for that. > > See > https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/classfile-api-dev/2024-November/000611.html > for initial problem discovery and > https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/classfile-api-dev/2024-December/000613.html > for revision proposal. > > Testing: tier 1-3. After further studies, due to JEP process restrictions, hiding is the only choice at this point. Reopening. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22503#issuecomment-2515822844
