6609441 : Ch] Enumerated types for general category and directionality in Character class

2009-10-05 Thread Pravin Jain
Hello All, I would like to work on this RFE. This change is quite simple and gives greater value to the Character class. The change can be done without breaking any existing code by adding the following enums in the Character class. /** * An enum for all the GeneralCategory values. The

New methods in jdk7

2009-10-05 Thread Paulo Levi
Since i heard you were looking for suggestions, i think i might have a useful one that i think is impossible nowadays without native code. public void restart(); At first i thought it could be simulated just by calling the main class again in a shutdown hook, but i don't think all the static state

Re: Review request for 6612680 (Remove classloader dependency on jkernel)

2009-10-05 Thread Alan Bateman
Mandy Chung wrote: Alan, Karen, Can you review the fix for: 6612680: Remove classloader dependency on jkernel Webrev at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/6612680/ java.lang.ClassLoader and sun.misc.Launcher have explicit dependencies on the jkernel code. While the performance impact

Re: JSR-292: Why not java.lang.dyn?

2009-10-05 Thread Ben Evans
I think this is somewhat of a red herring. After all, there are many classes which live in java.lang which are fundamental to the operation of the platform, and which any language which lived on top of the VM would have an intimate relationship with (eg Object, Class, String, etc). If we are

New Methods/Features in JDK7

2009-10-05 Thread Quintin Beukes
Hey, Are there any current listings of new language features/broad API changes so far in OpenJDK7. I understand they might not be permanent, and could change in a wink, though I'm curious to see what could possibly be in the next Java. Quintin Beukes

Re: New Methods/Features in JDK7

2009-10-05 Thread Martin Buchholz
Unofficial: http://tech.puredanger.com/java7 On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 14:10, Quintin Beukes quin...@last.za.net wrote: Hey, Are there any current listings of new language features/broad API changes so far in OpenJDK7. I understand they might not be permanent, and could change in a wink, though

hg: jdk7/tl/jdk: 6885204: JSSE should not require Kerberos to be present

2009-10-05 Thread vincent . ryan
Changeset: 54118c8e0ebe Author:vinnie Date: 2009-10-05 23:42 +0100 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/jdk/rev/54118c8e0ebe 6885204: JSSE should not require Kerberos to be present Reviewed-by: wetmore, alanb !

Re: Review request for 6612680 (Remove classloader dependency on jkernel)

2009-10-05 Thread Mandy Chung
Alan, RĂ©mi, Thanks for the review. The revised webrev is at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/6612680/jdk-webrev.01/ http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/6612680/hotspot-webrev.01/ Alan Bateman wrote: Good to see this dependency going away. A couple of comments: - In thread.cpp, do you