A PARTIAL VICTORY! They've decide to revert the change to Reflection.getCallerClass for 7u40 and the rest of 7. Woohoo!
"What will happen to this method in JDK 8 requires further thought." Meanwhile, about 300 lines of Java and 1,000 lines of native code later, I'm about ready to submit my patch for a public API replacement in Java 8. N On Jul 29, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: > What a mess :( it seem unlikely new APIs will be added to Java 8 to help us, > at least based on comments like > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-July/019110.html > > We might be left with documenting our side with "if you use features x and y > in this context then the speed will degrade to so and so, here is where to > ask Oracle to fix it: http:..." > > Gary > > On Jul 29, 2013, at 9:06, Nick Williams <nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> wrote: > >> core-libs-dev
