> Remove javax.imageio.spi.ServiceRegistry.finalize() since it is deprecated > for removal. > The impact of this should be minimal. The IIORegistry will now be a singleton > - which it already was > in practice since Applets are no longer supported. Since it is a singleton, > it will persist for the life > of the VM, so will never be garbage collected. > A test that verifies one per-AppContext is now obsolete, and is deleted, and > there's no good reason to make it a negative test, since in due course > AppContext itself will be deleted and is un-used today except in tests. > > Since JDK 9, ServiceRegistry has supported only Image I/O specified > providers, and since the IIORegistry does this, > in practice there is very little reason for an application to create > instances or subclasses of it. > And even if they do, typically like IIORegistry, they be used for the life > time of the application. > And if they are collected, without calling ServiceRegistry.deregisterAll() > there may be no impact, > since only providers that implement RegisterableService will be affected. > > See the JBS issue for all the details. > > The CSR is ready for review https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8365409
Phil Race has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision: 8365292 ------------- Changes: - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26752/files - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26752/files/1ba9731d..308e472c Webrevs: - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=26752&range=01 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=26752&range=00-01 Stats: 4 lines in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 3 del; 1 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26752.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/26752/head:pull/26752 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26752