> On 29 Mar 2016, at 12:15, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> On 29/03/2016 11:03, Robert Gibson wrote: >> : >> Hi Alan, >> Thanks for your quick reply. >> Yes, we have code (and depend on libraries) that use, approximately: >> com.sun.java.swing.plaf > Are you sure you are using classes in this package directly? The L&F is > usually specified as a String.
Our historical preference for compile-time type errors gives rise to code like if (UIManager.getLookAndFeel() instanceof WindowsLookAndFeel) [Various other packages snipped] > >> >> We will at some point get around to re-writing the code that we have control >> over but would like to have flexibility over when we do this, and not have >> it as a precondition for upgrading our clients to Java 9. Currently it seems >> that -XaddExports doesn't have any effect in a JNLP file and I assumed that >> was a whitelisting issue with VM arguments and Web Start - but maybe it is >> supposed to work at this point? > -XaddExports has not been added to the options allowed to be specified with > the java-vm-args attribute. It probably should be considered so as to have > consistency with the command line (within reason of course, anything allowed > to be specified via java-vm-args requires thinking about security). > > -Alan Like I said, we will get around to rewriting what absolutely needs to be tweaked where we can, but being able to use the escape hatch like a command-line app (along with fixes for 8152838 and 8152839) will allow us to continue our testing. Thanks, Robert
