Robert Schuster wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Andrew Haley schrieb:
>>> What is the public equivalent for GetPropertyAction?
>> There isn't any need, is there?
> That depends. :)
>
>> It's just a wrapper for
>> (String) AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction() {
>> public java.lang.Object run() {
>> return System.getProperty(prop); }
>> });
> That is certainly true but has the nasty side effect of creating an
> anonymous class per code location. In the PhoneME code I found ~20
> occurrences of GetPropertyAction. Even in Classpath we avoided that by
> introducing our own wrapper class.
Sure, but it's an *internal* class for use within Classpath. Basic
modularity concerns indicate that modules don't use each other's
internal convenience classes. Your proposed patch is a regression IMO.
Andrew.
