@Supported design issues (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon Mar 4 10:28:59 UTC 2013

On 28/02/2013 19:31, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

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If we're going to define a new annotation with this much visibility then we should at least take the time to inventory the JDK-specific APIs that we have, and those we reasonably expect to have in the near future, to understand how many distinct levels are useful. I didn't see any replies to this but I'm willing to do an inventory. We need this for our modularity work anyway and I think we already have a good handle on most of what is in the com.sun hierarchy. There are also a few APIs, com.apple for example, where I'm actually interesting in establishing their status as they came in without too much discussion.

I did just notice that the annotation's source file is in the langtools repo rather than the jdk repo. What's the rationale for that? I think most JDK developers would expect to find it in the jdk repo. This is just build related as there are "supported" APIs in the langtools repository. I see Joe has added the already added the proposed annotation to com.sun.source.

-Alan.

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