On 05/15/2013 10:39 AM, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:
Le 15/05/13 10:05, David Holmes a écrit :
There is a huge difference between blowing away a complete process
with kill and having a single thread starting to propagate an async
exception, unwinding its stack and executing finally blocks with
completely broken state invariants.
Given the risk, what about a mechanism similar to the one which
currently hides the Sun internal packages from the compilation phase
but not yet from the runtime phase? Would it be acceptable to have
'javac' and 'javadoc' woking as if the 'Thread.stop(Throwable)' method
did not existed anymore, while having the method still working (for
now) at runtime for existing libraries? Maybe with an annotation yet
stronger than @Deprecated.
Martin
yes, I propose @Retired.
Rémi
