Nope, Unsafe is gory bull****t :)
There is only one situation where you still need it: if you manually pack constant definitions in an existing class. But this is highly non-portable. LieGrue, strub ----- Original Message ----- > From: Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com> > To: dev@openejb.apache.org; Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> > Cc: > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 12:20 PM > Subject: Re: ASM proxy improvement > > Hi Mark, > > unsafe is used in all frameworks so i'd consider it as safe ;) > > Romain Manni-Bucau > Twitter: @rmannibucau > Blog: http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/ > LinkedIn: http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau > Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau > > > > 2012/12/31 Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de>: >> hi folks! >> >> While looking at the ASM proxy David imported to OWB I saw that it's > based on the sun.misc.Unsafe class. >> This makes this approach non-portable to other JVMs. >> >> I now played around with an alternative way to do the same: I just invoke > the protected ClassLoader#defineClass method via reflection instead. In my > tests > this works pretty well already. See defineAndLoadClass in [1]. Maybe I can > even > remove the 2nd explicit loadClass. It also works without in java6 but the > docs > says that the class is only available after doing a loadClass. Would need > some > more tests to make sure it also works portable without this redundant call. >> >> Happy about any feedback. >> >> >> LieGrue, >> strub >> >> >> [1] > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openwebbeans/trunk/webbeans-impl/src/main/java/org/apache/webbeans/proxy/asm/InterceptorDecoratorProxyFactory.java >> >
