Re: Disallowing the dynamic loading of agents by default

2017-04-03 Thread Alasdair Nottingham
Hi, I’m the lead for WebSphere Liberty at IBM. Liberty uses a java agent, and this proposal will affect us. Our Java Agent is used to update the bytecode of our classes to add in instrumentation for debug logging and performance monitoring. In general it is attached via -javaagent, which wont b

Re: Disallowing the dynamic loading of agents by default

2017-04-03 Thread Alasdair Nottingham
person to have realized this. Alasdair > On Apr 3, 2017, at 2:41 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: > > On 03/04/2017 18:52, Alasdair Nottingham wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I’m the lead for WebSphere Liberty at IBM. Liberty uses a java agent, and >> this proposal will

Re: Disallowing the dynamic loading of agents by default

2017-04-04 Thread Alasdair Nottingham
> On Apr 3, 2017, at 6:59 PM, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: > > 2017/4/3 10:52:02 -0700, alasdair.notting...@gmail.com: >> I’m the lead for WebSphere Liberty at IBM. Liberty uses a java agent, >> and this proposal will affect us. Our Java Agent is used to update the >> bytecode of our classes t

Re: Disallowing the dynamic loading of agents by default (revised)

2017-04-06 Thread Alasdair Nottingham
Mark, I much prefer this proposal and it covers my use case which is fantastic Some comments below: > On Apr 5, 2017, at 12:15 PM, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: > > Thanks to everyone for the quick feedback on this topic, and especially > to Andrew for the constructive dialogue. > > Here's