On 01/08/2014 03:26 AM, Stuart Marks wrote:
On 1/7/14 2:26 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
public abstract class Ref {
So the type has been deprecated for at least 10 years. Rather than
fixing the
warning in the class, I think the best course of action is to remove
the file in
JDK 9. A build of OpenJDK without this file builds fine; if a build
of the
closed sources goes fine to, I think that should be sufficient
justification for
this type to be removed.
Using code search engines, there are just a handful of references to
sun.misc.Ref in the wihld, but any such uses will have several years
to migrate
to the standard java.util.SoftReference before JDK 9 ships.
When in doubt, take it out.
I had a small concern about whether sun.misc.Ref still might have had
some dependencies from the JVM (i.e. special support like the
java.lang.ref classes), but it looks like sun.misc.Ref itself is
entirely implemented in terms of java.lang.ref.SoftReference. I did a
quick search of hotspot and I couldn't find any mentions of
sun.misc.Ref, so I think we're clear.
s'marks
yes, delete it.
Rémi
