Please review a fix for issue where it was seen that several classes in plaf package rely on default constructors as part of their public API.
It's to be noted that "A no-arg public constructor is generated by the compiler for a class if it does not declare an explicit constructor. While convenient, this is inappropriate for many kinds of formal classes, both because the constructor will have no javadoc and because the constructor may be unintended." For the JDK, classes intended to be used outside of the JDK, public classes in exported packages, should not rely on default constructors. Proposed fix is to add explicit public no-arg constructors for public classes and protected no-arg constructor for protected classes for javax.swing module ------------- Commit messages: - 8252722: More Swing plaf APIs that rely on default constructors Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/251/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=251&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8252722 Stats: 457 lines in 36 files changed: 453 ins; 0 del; 4 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/251.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/251/head:pull/251 PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/251
