[wildfly-dev] sun.misc.Unsafe usage, etc.

[Andrig T. Miller]

My understanding was JDK9 was going to have a public API that replaces Unsafe.  It has been discussed on the concurrency interest list a number of times.  Is that not the case anymore?

Andy

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Stark" <sstark at redhat.com>
> To: wildfly-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:58:08 AM
> Subject: [wildfly-dev] sun.misc.Unsafe usage, etc.
> 
> In case you didn't see the msg I sent to the core, I started up a
> discussion thread "What are our middleware sun.misc.Unsafe uses?"
> (https://developer.jboss.org/message/936359) to identify and track
> the replacement for all of the Unsafe uses. As the start of the
> discussion indicates, this came up because there was fear that Java
> 9 would prevent access to the various internal packages. There may
> be a Java EC working group on the problem, but it would be best for
> use to work on getting public replacements in place by working with
> our OpenJDK team lead by Andrew Haley.
> 
> I have some comments I collected from other threads on the topic from
> Andrew, Jason and David as well as the Java EC summary of the Unsafe
> situation as background at the start of the thread.
> 
> Please add to or correct anything that shows up on the thread as I
> work through the projects to identify what we are using and why.
> 
> The first think I checked out was the use of the Unsafe usage by
> jboss-modules in the current wildfly trunk build. That turns out to
> be synchronization primitives that have already been dropped in the
> 1.5.0 snapshot due to JDK7+ being required. Hopefully most of these
> are similar workarounds for older Java platforms, but where they are
> not, I want to make sure we are either tracking or creating an
> OpenJDK JEP (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/1) for the public api
> replacement.
> 
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