On 27/01/2015 04:37, Mandy Chung wrote:
System.runFinalizationOnExit has been deprecated since 1998 (JDK 1.2)
and this method is inherently unsafe. I am thinking to propose this
method
in JDK 9 to throw UnsupportedOperationException.
I believe it's rare for existing applications using
System.runFinalizationOnExit.
My analysis on Maven Central ~315K artifacts that show about ~15 unique
artifacts calling System.runFinalizationOnExit while they all come from
only 5 classes.
Any thought/feedback?
It's broken in other ways beyond what is in the @deprecated note so I
don't think it's much of a loss to finally disable it. I don't know if
you have come up with candidate wording to replace the existing wording
but having it reference the shutdown hooks and the ref API might be useful.
-Alan
