Back in June, Sean Coffey had an attempt to add com.sun.corba.se.impl.**
to the restricted package list. Problems arose and the change had to be
backed out ([1] [2]]).
Mark Sheppard and I have been looking at this one again and we would
like to make a second attempt at this. The proposed patch is here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8021257/
The main difference between this and the original patch is that we've
changed the RMI-IIOP code to statically reference the fallback/default
implementation rather than using reflection. Same thing for the ORB
initialization. We could have fixed the reflection usages but it didn't
seem worth it (from a modularity point of view then there isn't a
significant need at this time to have the API + default implementation
in separate modules, if such a need arises then we could change this to
use ServiceLoader).
The other difference is that we are proposing to add com.sun.corba.se.**
rather than just the impl classes. The rational is that
com.sun.corba.se.** is not a documented and supported interface so there
shouldn't be anything using it directly. This change shouldn't have any
impact any folks using the endorsed standards mechanism to replace
javax.rmi.CORBA and org.omg.**.
-Alan
[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/c4480e0d9f53
[2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/7cc35dd1885d
