Adding asm to JDK 8 (original) (raw)

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Fri Feb 3 17:43:37 UTC 2012

On 2/3/2012 9:38 AM, Brian Goetz wrote:

Lambda was the proximate driving force. EE was also a contributor; as I mentioned earlier, Glassfish includes half a dozen versions of ASM, some of different vintages, because of how it is componentized.

We can probably get rid of the extra repo once we can make it into a module.

Why does it need to be a module before that can happen ? So far as I can tell initially binary goes into rt.jar either way (source in shared or separate repo).

-phil.

On 2/3/2012 12:11 PM, Phil Race wrote: Oh, its for lambda! Thank you for mentioning that. I had no clue what we needed this thing for :-), may be it was obvious to the rest of the world but not to me and I was surprised it wasn't mentioned in Jim's email.

But does it really need its own new repo ? I think there needs to be a discussion on this as I'd like to see fewer of them. How enormous is this thing ? Can't be that big if there's a copy buried in jax-ws -phil. On 2/3/2012 3:46 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: On 03/02/2012 04:04, Mandy Chung wrote: Great. That would give a good starting point.

Mandy On 2/2/2012 7:34 PM, Brian Goetz wrote: The main ASM distribution is broken into 5 jars, based on how people tend to use it; this is probably a good starting candidate for module boundaries. Brian - I also think we'll need a brief overview on usage too. In particular, is the plan to run ASM at runtime and is this the plan for the long term too or will it be replaced by something in the core to generate the classes as runtime? (I'm been too busy to track many of the details of lambda). -Alan

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