DialogCallbackHandler is the sample Swing based CallbackHandler in the
JDK-specific API to JAAS. It's problematic for our modularity efforts
and as folks may recall, we deprecated it in JDK 8 with a warning to say
that it would be removed in a future release. It was also flagged in JEP
162 as an impediment to the JDK modularization.
I'd like to get the second phase of this work (ie: remove it) into JDK 9
early to give every opportunity for folks that folks that might have a
dependency a chance find an alternative solution.
The webrev with the proposed changes is here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8029904/webrev/
With these changes then all tests in the jdk_security jtreg group are
passing. There will clearly be additional work to do beyond the code
changes (like the JAAS guide) but that is for later.
-Alan
