On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 10:48:01 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > @AlanBateman Sure, I am interested in it. > > Great! I think there are several parts to this. The removal of the JAR index > support from the URLClassLoader implementation, the `jar i` option, the JAR > file spec, and the jar tool man page. > > It would be good to create a patch for the removal to see if there are any > issues. There will probably need to be some discussion on what to do with the > jar tool. I suspect we will need to keep the code that updates the index when > updating a JAR file that has an existing index, this means keeping JarIndex > and maybe moving it to the jdk.jartool module. We can change `jar i` to print > a warning when the tool is called to generate an index. Don't worry about the > JAR spec and man page for now. I will first create the patch to remove JAR index support from the URLClassLoader implementation, the `jar i` option. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5316
