Hi Chris, I was under the impression that making @Contended Part of Java SE was planned for Java 9, but I might have been mistaken. It is a very useful annotation and I am not aware of issues with it which would justify removing it from public access. We might not be voting on it, but I would lobby for continued support of that feature.
Not sure if I would qualify it as critical. Its a different case. The JEP 260 APIs were there and always doomed to be removed. @Contended was placed there intended to be promoted, right? Fabian > So I think the questions we need to answer are as follows: > a) Is it desirable to have @Contended as part of Java SE? > i) If so, is this doable for JDK 9? > b) If ?No? to a or i, do we consider @Contended ?critical?, > as per JEP 260 ? > > -Chris. > > [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132928 >
