Looks good. Since the annotation is a compile time only annotation, it should not affect any future modularization efforts. Right Alan?
//Fredrik 2012/5/23 Kelly O'Hair <kelly.oh...@oracle.com>: > > 7170969: Add @GenerateNativeHeader to classes whose fields need to be > exported for JNI > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk8/generateHeaders1/webrev/ > > The new build infrastructure wants to fully automate the generation of the > JNI header files (running javah). > On classes that have "native" methods this is obvious, but class that only > export constants, and whose constants > are needed in the JNI native code, we need to mark these classes as needing > their native header file generated. > > This change is adding: > > import javax.tools.annotation.GenerateNativeHeader; > > /* No native methods here, but the constants are needed in the supporting JNI > code */ > @GenerateNativeHeader > > To any class without a native method, but needing to expose it's constants to > the native code. > > -kto >
