I put a comment in the bug report. In essence this package contains the code
for the ‘jdb’ command line debugger which is shipped as a supported tool in the
JDK. I don’t think we can simply remove it.
/Staffan
On 08 Nov 2013, at 14:39, Andreas Lundblad wrote:
> Regarding bug JDK-8008602: Samp
Regarding bug JDK-8008602: Sample code in tools.jar.
Does anyone have any insight in whether or not the JPDA example code in
com.sun.tools.example.** should be kept, or if should be removed altogether?
AFAIK no code outside of the example package depends upon it. The build does
however fail wit