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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:53:02 -0400
From: Geir Magnusson Jr <geir@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [classlib] Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-1088)
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Alex Blewitt wrote:
> I concur. We should not have any sun.* packages. Any program that
> explicitly depends on a sun.* class should fail.

I don't agree.  I think that we will certainly have sun packages like
sun.misc.Unsafe, and I suspect there are a few others that we'll want to
have to not irritate our users at first as they try their existing
programs and they fail.

Over time, we should get rid of them though...

geir

> 
> Alex.
> 
> On 08/08/06, Mikhail Loenko <mloenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure it's legal to put any classes to sun.* packages
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mikhail
>>
>> 2006/8/8, Martín Córdova (JIRA) <jira@apache.org>:
>> > ava.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/misc/BASE64Encoder
>> > ------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >                 Key: HARMONY-1088
>> >                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-1088
>> >             Project: Harmony
>> >          Issue Type: Bug
>> >         Environment: Windows XP SP2 latest Harmony JRE as of aug-8-2006
>> >            Reporter: Martín Córdova
>> >
>> >
>> > Harmony does not include this class. It's not a standard class, but
>> has been of common usage for many years, and most JDKs (Sun, IBM and
>> BEA) provide it under the SAME package. I think that there is no sense
>> in not providing it under the usual package, it just breaks existing
>> code.
>> >
>> > BTW, this JRE is seems to be running real fast.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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