Re: Java 9

2017-02-09 Thread Rory O'Donnell
Hi, Let me fill you in on the Quality Outreach. I send out email every 2-3 weeks depending on contents of the builds, example attached. I try to highlight significant changes in the builds, allowing you to decide if you might want to test with a particular build. We don't expect you to test ev

Re: Java 9

2017-02-09 Thread Reynold Xin
tl;dr: The critical internal APIs proposed to remain accessible in JDK 9 are: sun.misc.{Signal,SignalHandler} sun.misc.Unsafe (The functionality of many of the methods in this class is now available via variable handles (JEP 193).) sun.reflect.Reflection::getCallerClass(int) (The functionality

Re: Java 9

2017-02-09 Thread Felix Yang
Excuse me, more detail of JDK 9 can be found here . http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/ The changes mentioned below were tracked in http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/260 If you want something digested, technical sessions in recent JavaOne would be quite helpful. There is a Quality Outreac

Re: Java 9

2017-02-07 Thread kant kodali
Well and the module system! On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:03 AM, Timur Shenkao wrote: > If I'm not wrong, they got fid of *sun.misc.Unsafe *in Java 9. > > This class is till used by several libraries & frameworks. > > http://mishadoff.com/blog/java-magic-part-4-sun-dot-misc-dot-unsafe/ > > On Tue

Re: Java 9

2017-02-07 Thread Timur Shenkao
If I'm not wrong, they got fid of *sun.misc.Unsafe *in Java 9. This class is till used by several libraries & frameworks. http://mishadoff.com/blog/java-magic-part-4-sun-dot-misc-dot-unsafe/ On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Pete Robbins wrote: > Yes, I agree but it may be worthwhile starti

Re: Java 9

2017-02-07 Thread Pete Robbins
Yes, I agree but it may be worthwhile starting to look at this. I was just trying a build and it trips over some of the now defunct/inaccessible sun.misc classes. I was just interested in hearing if anyone has already gone through this to save me duplicating effort. Cheers, On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 at

Re: Java 9

2017-02-07 Thread Sean Owen
I don't think anyone's tried it. I think we'd first have to agree to drop Java 7 support before that could be seriously considered. The 8-9 difference is a bit more of a breaking change. On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:44 AM Pete Robbins wrote: > Is anyone working on support for running Spark on Java