Thanks for looking into the update. The "forRemoval=true" tag was added
in March 2010 (JDK-8160247). It make sense to me to postpone the
removal until JDK 15.
I re-targeted the RFE and CSR to JDK 15.
Thanks,
Xuelei
On 7/8/2019 2:33 PM, Stuart Marks wrote:
Hi, thanks for asking about this.
There's not much process, but there unfortunately is some that isn't
quite written down yet. :-) Essentially something must be deprecated for
removal in some release prior to it actually being removed in a
subsequent release. In the "old days" of multi-year releases, marking
for removal in one release and removing it in the next seemed
reasonable. In the new model of six-month releases, removing something
in the very next release seems too soon. We're currently thinking that
typically one should remove a feature no sooner than the second release
after it's marked for removal, unless there's a compelling reason to
remove it more quickly.
In this case the bug report (JDK-8227024) says that the APIs in question
were marked for removal in JDK 9. But Xuelei's message says that they
were deprecated (ordinarily, i.e., not-for-removal) in JDK 9, and then
deprecated for removal in JDK 13. That looks right, since the JDK 12
docs don't mention deprecation for removal.
I also note that the deprecation annotation says since="9" which is the
release in which deprecation first appeared, but not the release in
which forRemoval=true was added. It isn't very clear whether this is the
date of first deprecation or date at which forRemoval=true was added. I
should think about clarifying the spec in that regard.
In any case, it's probably premature to remove these APIs from JDK 14.
If it's reasonable to do so, I'd suggest postponing the removal until
JDK 15.
s'marks
On 7/8/19 12:28 PM, Bradford Wetmore wrote:
I'm not completely up on the nuances of the overall removal process,
but codewise it looks good.
Brad
On 7/8/2019 8:02 AM, Xuelei Fan wrote:
Hi,
Please review the following update for JDK 14:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~xuelei/8227024/webrev.00/
and the CSR:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8227395
The javax.security.cert APIs were deprecated in Java SE 9 and marked
for removal in Java SE 13. Applications should use the
java.security.cert APIs instead.
Thanks,
Xuelei
