On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 07:41:39 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <s...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> In jdk 9 we started to sort the list of methods for each class for two > reasons: > 1. We had a number of bugs which state that our JavaBeans randomly does not > work, examples: JDK-6807471[1] , JDK-6788525[2], the reason was that the > order of methods from Class.getMethods() is not specified. > 2. We tried to sort methods so the more specific returns types come first, > this was done because our logic for selecting the correct method did not work > properly. > > The second issue above was fixed by the separate change > [JDK-8196373](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8196373) so now we > only need to sort the list of methods in any order and do not care about > return types. Marked as reviewed by prr (Reviewer). ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7190
