On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Donald Smith <donald.sm...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Yes, but then read the rest of the thread. You really must not rely on > the theoretical possibility of an XX flag that magically kicks all your > problems down the road a year or two. The best time to get all this nailed > correctly is now. I understand why you are writing this and in principle I agree. But please understand that this is not about fixing sloppy programming in a college project but affects whether we can use a technology for the next few years where the problems that stop us now may have gone away or otherwise not to be able to continue our product using Java (at least until we know where Java/JFX is going) and move to something native instead throwing away huge investments. The world is just not that simple. > That flag is not likely to be as extensive and durable as everyone is > imagining. > > OK, so having to patch the JDK to access private API in Java 9 is still a possible outcome?
