JDK-8037781 : Remove sun.misc.Regexp* classes
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: core-libs
  • Affected Version: 9
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Submitted: 2014-03-18
  • Updated: 2014-12-02
  • Resolved: 2014-03-29
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Description
As part of the cleanup of unused sun.misc classes, once JDK-8035158 is complete, remove the following:

sun.misc.RegexpPool,
sun.misc.RegexpTarget,
sun.misc.Regexp,
sun.misc.REException 

as sun.net.spi.DefaultProxySelector is/was the sole user of these classes, in the JDK.