Bug ID: JDK-8273581 Change the mechanism by which JDK loads the platform-specific FontManager class

Type: Enhancement
Component: client-libs
Sub-Component: 2d
Affected Version: 13,17,18

Priority: P4
Status: Resolved
Resolution: Fixed
OS: generic
CPU: generic

Submitted: 2021-09-10
Updated: 2021-10-04
Resolved: 2021-09-28

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JDK 18
18 b17Fixed

sun.font.FontManagerFactory uses reflection to load platform specific sun.font.FontManager class from "sun.font.fontmanager" system property.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/c81690d7166c32caff6ef3a55fe9b157049e2b56/src/java.desktop/share/classes/sun/font/FontManagerFactory.java#L79

The "sun.font.fontmanager" property can be one of:
"sun.awt.Win32FontManager"
"sun.font.CFontManager"
 "sun.awt.X11FontManager"

sun.font.FontManager is internal JDK class and JDK modularization feature prevents a user from providing custom FontManager class.

It would be good to avoid using reflection in this case and create corresponding platform specific classes directly.

Changeset: 961dcffc Author: Alexander Scherbatiy <alexsch@openjdk.org> Date: 2021-09-28 09:26:51 +0000 URL: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/961dcffc862a4830fbf26791835a98c12d4b513e

28-09-2021

CSR :	JDK-8273896 - Change the mechanism by which JDK loads the platform-specific FontManager class
Relates :	JDK-8212700 - Change the mechanism by which JDK loads the platform-specific AWT Toolkit
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