JDK-6852936 : Remove unused classes from sun.misc
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: other-libs
  • Sub-Component: other
  • Affected Version: 9
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2009-06-19
  • Updated: 2024-03-12
  • Resolved: 2024-03-12
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Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-8137055 - Prepare for JEP 260
Relates :  
JDK-8066506 - Migrate use of sun.misc.* to supported APIs
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JDK-8145390 - Remove sun.misc.Queue and replace usages with standard Collections
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JDK-8145214 - Remove sun.misc.Request and RequestProcessor
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JDK-8032397 - Remove sun.misc.Ref
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JDK-8034776 - Remove sun.misc.Service
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JDK-8137055 - Prepare for JEP 260
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JDK-8037781 - Remove sun.misc.Regexp* classes
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JDK-8035158 - Remove dependency on sun.misc.RegexpPool and friends
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JDK-8046902 - Remove sun.misc.Timer
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JDK-8144995 - Move sun.misc.HexDumpEncoder to sun.security.util
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JDK-8034853 - Remove sun.misc.ClassLoaderUtil
Description
Many of the classes in sun.misc date back to early JDK releases and may not be used anymore. Others have public replacements. This bug is submitted to check each of the classes in sun.misc and remove any that aren't being used. Further bugs/rfes may be submitted for cases where other code should be updated to use public or more modern replacements (eg: sun.misc.Service -> java.util.ServiceLoader).
Comments
Yes, I think this should be closed.
13-01-2020
JDK-8137055 reviewed all types in sun.misc, and moved or removed whatever made sense. This issue is now closed as a duplicate of JDK-8137055.
13-01-2020
Should this be closed as resolved? All but Signal, SignalHandler and Unsafe has been removed.
19-07-2019
From the Maven Central search dated May 2014, sun.misc.UUEncoder and UUDecoder are used by: org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.email.UUMailer com.canoo.webtest.plugins.emailtest.EmailMessageContentFilter org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.email.UUMailer org.mule.transformers.codec.UUDecoder org.owasp.jbrofuzz.encode.UUEncoder scala.tools.scalap.MainTest$MainTestCase
02-12-2015
Dependencies on sun.misc.* APIs analyzed from 89299 maven artifacts downloaded in Sep 2012: class unique total sun.misc.Unsafe 70 375 sun.misc.BASE64Encoder 47 217 sun.misc.BASE64Decoder 34 364 sun.misc.Perf 20 124 sun.misc.URLClassPath 15 268 sun.misc.Signal 14 55 sun.misc.SignalHandler 14 55 sun.misc.UUEncoder 13 131 sun.misc.CharacterEncoder 11 35 sun.misc.Service 10 164 sun.misc.CharacterDecoder 4 15 sun.misc.Cleaner 4 6 sun.misc.Resource 3 25 sun.misc.UUDecoder 3 19 sun.misc.Perf$GetPerfAction 2 16 sun.misc.UCDecoder 2 18 sun.misc.UCEncoder 2 18 sun.misc.CRC16 1 1 sun.misc.ClassFileTransformer 1 4 sun.misc.CompoundEnumeration 1 2 sun.misc.IOUtils 1 1 sun.misc.JarFilter 1 1 sun.misc.MessageUtils 1 2 sun.misc.Ref 1 1 sun.misc.ServiceConfigurationError 1 1 sun.misc.SoftCache 1 3
28-03-2014
It appears that the following are no longer used: sun.misc.CRC16 \ sun.misc.Cache \ sun.misc.CacheEntry \ sun.misc.CacheEnumerator \ sun.misc.Compare \ sun.misc.ConditionLock \ sun.misc.FIFOQueueEnumeration \ sun.misc.LIFOQueueEnumeration \ sun.misc.Lock \ sun.misc.Regexp sun.misc.Request \ sun.misc.RequestProcessor \ sun.misc.Sort \ sun.misc.Timeable \ sun.misc.TimerThread \ sun.misc.TimerTickThread \ sun.misc.UCDecoder \ sun.misc.UCEncoder \ sun.misc.UUDecoder \ sun.misc.UUEncoder \ sun.misc.VMNotification \ sun.misc.CRC16 is loaded using Class.forName by test/closed/java/lang/SecurityManager/CheckPackagesLock.java. It looks like this test case easily be changed to use another class.
08-01-2014
EVALUATION For compatibility reason, these classes may need to remain in the JDK in a separate module.
30-10-2009