On 5/7/18 6:23 AM, Claes Redestad wrote:
Hi,
the --class-for-name jlink plugin was added as an experiment to test
and evolve the jlink plugin infrastructure. The actual effect of
enabling this plugin on standard images is very limited (only a
handful of Class.forName:s are replaced) and turns out it can be a
breaking change since replacing a Class.forName isn't semantically
identical with an ldc of the class (the latter won't trigger class
initialization).
Thus, since this plugin isn't very profitable and potentially
dangerous, I suggest removing it:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8202583/open.00/
+1
An open question is whether a CSR is required to remove this.
This is an experimental and unsupported plugin. I agree with Alan that
no CSR is needed for this change.
Mandy
