On Thu, 16 May 2024 20:17:18 GMT, Kevin Walls <kev...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Running JConsole from a previous JDK, and attaching to jdk-23 (after 
>> [JDK-8326666](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8326666): Remove the Java 
>> Management Extension (JMX) Subject Delegation feature), the MBean tab is 
>> blank.
>> 
>> In javax/management/remote/rmi/RMIConnectionImpl.java:
>> addNotificationListener rejects a non-null delegationSubjects array, but 
>> older JDKs will send such an array. It could accept the array, and only 
>> reject/throw if it contains a non-null Subject (i.e. if an attempt to use 
>> subject delegation is really happening).
>> 
>> Manually testing JConsole, the MBean tab is fully populated and usable.
>
> Kevin Walls has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - add an 'also'
>  - typo

src/java.management.rmi/share/classes/javax/management/remote/rmi/RMIConnection.java
 line 961:

> 959:      * @param delegationSubjects should be {@code null}, but a non-null
> 960:      * array is also accepted for compatibility reasons, which must not
> 961:      * contain any non-null entries.

The wording is bit unusual for a parameter description. Just wondering if might 
be clearer to say "null or an array of null elements" and put add an `@apiNote` 
to explain that it allows an array with null elements for compatibility 
reasons. What you have is okay too course, I'm just trying to think of another 
way to present this odd case.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19253#discussion_r1604740107

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