On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 17:26:07 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Looks like it's never specified in JavaDoc which particular implementation >> of List is used in fields of affected classes, so it's quite odd to me that >> someone would rely on that when using reflection. But your point about >> backward compatibility is reasonable, so I'll revert mentioned changes. > > Nothing outside of the JDK should be hacking into this private field of a > non-exposed class, this should not be a concern here. > @AlanBateman so is it ok to keep `ArrayLists`? One thing to look out for is usages of 2-arg add method that inserts at a specific position. This shouldn't be a concern in URLClassPath.closeLoaders (assuming this is this usage where the question arises). ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2744
