JDK-8133917 : Please backport X11FontManager refactor to Java 8!
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: client-libs
  • Affected Version: 8u45
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: linux
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 2015-08-05
  • Updated: 2016-01-14
  • Resolved: 2015-08-19
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JDK 8
8u72 b01Fixed
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Description
A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
In Java 8u45 sun.awt.X11FontManager was made final. This causes application using OpenJDK Caciocavallo to crash, because sun.awt.peer.cacio.CacioFontManager extends X11FontManager.

A refactor the enables fixing the problem was made for Java 9:
http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8072436

Please backport this change to Java 8!

OpenJDK Caciocavallo links:
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/caciocavallo-dev/2015-February.txt

JUSTIFICATION :
This is needed to enable running UI unit tests on Linux servers without X11 running.



Comments
No testcase to verify
20-10-2015

I just pushed those changes to 8u-dev forest: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/refactor-x11fm/webrev-jdk8u.00/
19-08-2015