On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 22:44:52 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> The java.lang.classfile.components package was underused and had almost no 
> usage feedback; as a result, it did not caught attention during the preview 
> process of the Class-File API, until the late adoption when Class-File API is 
> sure to become finalized. In the previous rounds of reviews by other 
> engineers, most of the review efforts were devoted to other core modeling and 
> API classes, and components was largely omitted; a few questions were asked, 
> but no solution were proposed and the questions were forgotten.
> 
> To compensate in such a short time to the stabilization of JDK 24, we propose 
> to restore the preview status of the java.lang.classfile.component package 
> and its member classes. This allows us to better consider the role of this 
> package and its members.
> 
> See 
> https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/classfile-api-dev/2024-November/000611.html
>  for initial problem discovery and 
> https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/classfile-api-dev/2024-December/000613.html
>  for revision proposal.
> 
> See the CSR for alternative solutions and why they were not chosen.

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22501

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