On 07/05/2018 14:23, Claes Redestad wrote:
Hi,
the --class-for-name jlink plugin was added as an experiment to test
and evolve the jlink plugin infrastructure. The actual effect of
enabling this plugin on standard images is very limited (only a
handful of Class.forName:s are replaced) and turns out it can be a
breaking change since replacing a Class.forName isn't semantically
identical with an ldc of the class (the latter won't trigger class
initialization).
Thus, since this plugin isn't very profitable and potentially
dangerous, I suggest removing it:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8202583/open.00/
The changes looks fine.
An open question is whether a CSR is required to remove this.
It's an experimental/undocumented/unsupported plugin so just removing it
should be fine (the original CSR equivalent that added jlink didn't not
mention this plugin).
-Alan
