Hi Simeon, it's not documented or discussed much anywhere because it's as-of-yet undecided.
*Expectation* is that there'll be a JEP proposed to make --illegal-access=deny the *default* in JDK 16. I expect the ability to explicitly permit illegal accesses with --illegal-access=permit will stick around for a good while longer, though. Best regards /Claes On 2020-06-08 15:40, S A wrote:
Hi all, TL;DR is a future JDK release known, when illegal reflection access is no longer possible? If not, are there estimations / discussions / FAQs / documentation? The product I work on (Eclipse+xtext IDE + backend) has nearly completed the move to OpenJDK 11 (from OpenJDK 8) and we are working on supposedly not pressing issues. One of those issues is illegal access via reflection. We would obviously like to be prepared and so are estimating effort and time constraints of fixing illegal reflection access. As this includes multiple libraries, knowing *when* we need to finish our efforts is quite important. Sorry if this has been asked before (I imagine yes), but searching for the topic yields lots of how to work around or fix the issue. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Simeon
