8008290: (profiles) Startup regression due to additional checking of JAR file manifests (original) (raw)

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Thu Feb 21 20:19:21 UTC 2013

On 2/21/2013 12:01 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:

A minor note - the list of known jar files seems to be incomplete (e.g. tzdb.jar and some windows-specific ones). I think it may be better to file a bug to follow up this and maybe even better to replace the hardcoded list with other mechanism (if appropriate). The list doesn't have to be complete, this is just the JAR files that will be skipped. I completed list that hardcoded list needs clean-up (even the construction of) and that's the clean-up I hinted at in the first mail. I decided not to change in this round as I just wanted to restore the startup. Also it takes time to verify startup across a number of platforms so changing code in this area takes a bit longer to verify.

Right - this list doesn't have to be complete. I agree that it's better not to do the cleanup in your fix. I think very few people is aware of this hardcoded list and such startup improvement and it may worth filing a bug so that this is tracked and referenced if there is any startup regression related to this (that's what I meant with "follow up" - sorry I confused you).

Mandy

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