These changes are only relevant to the 7u product train. Whilst similar functionality will eventually appear in the JDK8 product train, the form will be quite different due to the integration with Jigsaw and the new build process.
In the not too distant future we hope to move these build rules out of the OpenJDK repository so we don't need to bother the community when we need to update them. Bug: ( The bug may take a few days to appear on the web ) http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7168098 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~collins/7168098/webrev/ Review: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-May/002977.html Thanks Gary