Thats great Nick!  Please keep us informed.

Ralph

On Jul 31, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Nick Williams wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> core-libs-dev
> 

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