On 29/07/2013 15:48, Paul Benedict wrote:
+1 with Nick. There's no point in submitting a patch unless someone who is in charge of Core Libs Dev is willing to first offer technical direction. Where does Oracle want to go with the solution? There are no official responses -- it's been quiet on their front for sometime. I don't know if that means the proposal is being ignored, or there are offline discussions happening, or people are enjoying summer vacations, or something else. I just don't know.
I think several people are on vacation, some people are at the JVM Language summit, others are probably just busy. I'm sure there will be further discussion over the next few weeks.
For JDK 8 then I think the use-cases need to be studied to see if it merits introducing new APIs or not (JDK 8 is past feature complete so it might be awkward/tight). The Groovy usage seems to be boil down to be able to distinguish frames associated with Groovy generated classes from other classes, Mandy has created a bug to look into that. Another one that has come up is loading resources on behalf of the caller, we already have a bug open to look at that for at least the purposes of logging resources.
On 7u40 then the method has not been removed and there is a workaround to allow existing code using the sun.reflect.Reflection directly to continue to work. I can't say whether this should be re-visited given the usages that have come out of the wood work. The timing on this is tighter given that 7u40 is supposed to be released mid-September.
-Alan
