JEP 353 [1] is now a candidate and I would like to get the CSR [2]
finalized and the changes reviewed so that it can be targeted.
The webrev with the changes is here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8221481/1/webrev/index.html
The new implementation is one source file; the only other code change is
to SocketImpl.createPlatformSocketImpl to select the implementation
based on the system property jdk.net.usePlainSocketImpl. The reason the
patch isn't too big is that all the "enabling changes" are already in
jdk/jdk.
We added additional tests a few weeks ago via JDK-8221259 [3] to test
long standing behavior. The webrev adds a few additional tests, the main
new one is to test that the SocketImpl is reliable in the fact of usages
that are not specified by SocketImpl. A selection of existing tests are
also updated to run with both the old and new implementation - the
motive of this is to ensure that the old implementation doesn't bit rot
before it is removed.
Once the changes are in a promoted build then we'll need help testing.
The best outcome is that nobody notices :-) Rory O'Donnell, with his
OpenJDK quality outreach hat on, has agreed to contact the projects
tracked by that program to test the EA builds when they are available.
-Alan
[1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/353
[2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8222028
[3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8221259
