Re: Disallowing the dynamic loading of agents by default

2017-04-02 Thread Christoph Engelbert
Hi Mark, hi others, First of all, I understand the idea behind this change and I think it certainly makes sense but from my impression the default is wrong, as Volker already pointed out. Over the last few days I (with the help of others) put together a document (https://docs.google.com/docume

RE: Disallowing the dynamic loading of agents by default

2017-04-02 Thread Stephen Felts
I agree with Andrew's position that if the argument is added in JDK9, it should default to allow dynamic loading of agents. Arguing from the position "Isn't it already the case, however, that migrating existing applications to JDK 9 is often going to require the use of a few new options anyway,