Runtime code generation and barriers in migrating away from JVM-interal APIs (original) (raw)

Peter Levart peter.levart at gmail.com
Sun Jan 7 16:40:40 UTC 2018

Hi Rafael,

On 01/07/18 13:10, Volker Simonis wrote:

At a result, even with Java 9 being supported by many popular frameworks, a migration away from internal APIs has not yet been achieved. I would therefore like to suggest the following extensions:

C) When a module opens a package, other modules should gain package access to this package when creating method handle lookups. This way, if a user opens a package containing Spring beans to the Spring framework, it could proxy all of these beans as it does today. Since opening a package also permits reflection on package-private types and methods of this package, this is not a security concern either.

Have you checked the new JDK 9 method: java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles#privateLookupIn ?

I believe it should do the trick.

Regards, Peter

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