On Jan 27, 2015, at 5:37 AM, Mandy Chung <mandy.ch...@oracle.com> wrote:
> System.runFinalizationOnExit has been deprecated since 1998 (JDK 1.2) > and this method is inherently unsafe. I am thinking to propose this method > in JDK 9 to throw UnsupportedOperationException. > > I believe it's rare for existing applications using > System.runFinalizationOnExit. > My analysis on Maven Central ~315K artifacts that show about ~15 unique > artifacts calling System.runFinalizationOnExit while they all come from > only 5 classes. > > Any thought/feedback? > If we do decide to do something perhaps we should remove it from 9 and back port the USO in 8? Why keep it around if it's been deprecated for over 10 years and from your analysis it's used by 0.005% of maven artifacts. Paul.
