Alan,
I've looked through the current thread and also review thread [1] for
original change (8165793), but haven't found any discussion why making
it static (instead of instance final) is undesirable.
Can you shed some light on it? Is it mainly usability concern
(loader.isParallelCapable() vs ClassLoader.isParallelCapable(loader))?
Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov
[1]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-October/044060.html
On 11/10/16 7:59 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 10/11/2016 17:42, David M. Lloyd wrote:
My original suggestion for the method was to make it static, and
possibly even caller-sensitive, for just this reason.
Changing it to be non-final looks reasonable here, the main reason being
that it's a no-arg isXXXX method and so unlikely that there are custom
class loaders that have a method with this name that returns something
other than boolean. However the modifier might be a concern and so time
will tell if there are custom class loaders that defining a non-public
no-arg method with this name.
-Alan
