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I was under the impression that the general rule was that all of com.sun.\* fell under the "jdk supported" umbrella, and the level of support was the distinction between sun.com.\* and sun.\* .

In any case, it would be good if there was a single canonical place that documented the various levels of support with subtle distinctions, including java.\* vs. javax.\*, endorsed standards, com.sun.\* vs. sun.\* vs. jdk.\*, and recommendations for where non-Oracle vendor extensions should go. �Is the jdk.Supported annotation itself part of Java SE? �Should third-party vendor extensions that are "supported" for public use by the third-party use jdk.Supported? �What about the X's in hotspot flags and the java tools command line interfaces?