That is, indeed, great news! I have almost completed a patch that I will propose later this week to make this a public API.
Nick On Jul 31, 2013, at 3:42 PM, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: > FYI, we're going to revert this method to its previous behavior in > JDK 7u40: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8021946 . > > What will happen to this method in JDK 8 requires further thought. > > - Mark
