Seeing that there is JEP about AOT showing a 9 in the release number just published, Marlin-Renderer should not be so big...
-Sven Am 17.10.2016 16:42 schrieb "Kevin Rushforth" <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com>: > Hi Laurent, > > Sure, we will share any benchmark results we have, although we likely > won't have too much time to spend on it in the near term, since we are > busily fixing bugs for JDK 9. As for getting this into JDK 9, it is way too > late for something of this scope. We are already past feature freeze and > are now in bug fix and stabilization mode. Yes, there is a process where a > few small enhancements might be considered [1], but even those require JDK > 9 release team approval, which is very unlikely for anything that rises to > the level of a new feature. > > I hope JDK 10 won't take as long as JDK 9 is taking, but as there isn't a > proposed JDK 10 project yet, we don't know the timeline. I expect we will > know more in the next couple of months. > > With strong encapsulation, the only way to access internal implementation > classes is via a command-line switch to add qualified exports for the > internal packages that you access. Note that any such use of internal > packages is fragile and could break at any time, but is an option for > applications that bundle a specific version of the JRE. > > -- Kevin > > [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/fc-extension-process > > Laurent Bourgès wrote: > >> >> Mark, >> >> > Laurent, the problem is that OpenJDK 9's feature set is already fixed, >> so I think it is not possible to *officially* adopt huge features like >> Marlin FX at such a "late" point. Besides that I think that Marlin FX is of >> so high value to OpenJDK that I would like to nominate you as an OpenJDK >> committer. But that is up to Kevin to decide, certainly! >> >> OpenJDK9 is currently in the Feature Complete extension-request process >> so it seems possible to submit a new JEP with very small impact and risk. >> As marlin-fx is very close to the integrated Marlin renderer in OpenJDK9, >> the risk is small for me but there will be certainly issues with jigsaw >> modularization of OpenJFX: MarlinFX uses jdk Unsafe for example. Moreover, >> integrating such JEP would imply to hurry up to be completed for dec 2016 ! >> >> FYI I am already jdk9 commiter in the client forrest but not in openjfx. >> >> > I don't know the internal structure of that part of JavaFX, but maybe >> Kevin could point us to some private APIs or config options one could use >> to allow anybody to simply bundle Marlin FX as an alternativ renderer with >> any JavaFX 8 or 9 application? >> >> It is certainly tricky due to classloader isolation and modules... but >> there is certainly some workaround. >> >> Cheers, >> Laurent >> >>
