> On Oct 7, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Brent Christian <brent.christ...@oracle.com> > wrote: > > On 10/5/16 4:43 PM, David Holmes wrote: >>> >>>> Okay but this will still affect the lifecycle of the PDs because >>>> without the strong reference in L, those weak references in the VM >>>> will quickly be cleared. > > There's also a strong reference held by the Class object itself (on the VM > side [1]). >
Yes this is the protection domain of the Class itself (i.e. PD associated with its code source) that was set when the class is defined. > Thanks for having a look, folks. I've applied Naoto and Mandy's suggestions > for the test case and updated the webrev in place with what I plan to push. > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bchristi/8151486/webrev.00/ It might be good to refactor System.getProperty("test.classes", ".”) as a static final field. Otherwise looks good. No need for a new webrev. Mandy
