When running a program that has code in the com.oracle.* package, jfr.jar will be loaded even if JFR is not referenced. This is because jre/lib/meta-index says that jfr.jar contains code for com.oracle.*. While this is true, it is a bit too general. It would be more accurate to say that jfr.jar contains code for com.oracle.jrockit.*.
Special cases such as this is handled in make/tools/src/build/tools/buildmetaindex/BuildMetaIndex.java. However, the logic started to look a bit complex with all the special handling, so I re-wrote it a little bit. The net result is that jre/lib/meta-index now says: # jfr.jar oracle/jrockit/ com/oracle/jrockit/ jdk/jfr/ instead of: # jfr.jar oracle/jrockit/ jdk/jfr/ com/oracle/ webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8023492/webrev.00/ Thanks, /Staffan
