JDK-8049422 : Remove @jdk.Exported
  • Type: Task
  • Component: other-libs
  • Sub-Component: other
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Submitted: 2014-07-07
  • Updated: 2017-05-17
  • Resolved: 2016-01-08
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JDK 9
9 b101Fixed
Related Reports
CSR :  
CCC-8049422 - Remove @jdk.Exported
Relates :  
JDK-8001614 - Include annotation type to documented supported-ness of JDK-specific types
Relates :  
JDK-8146619 - Re-examine supportness of public classes in com.sun.security.auth.**
Relates :  
JDK-8049507 - Specify jdk.Exported-ness for com.sun.java.swing
Sub Tasks
JDK-8175227 :  
Release Note: The jdk.Exported annotation has been removed - Closed
Description
JDK 8 introduced @jdk.Exported to help document the supported-ness of JDK-specific APIs.

Modules makes this annotation redundant and we should consider whether to deprecate or remove it in JDK 9. 

It may be simplest to just remove it. The compatibility impact is likely to be low as it's not obvious that anything outside of the JDK is using it. Another point is that Java SE modules will only export Java SE APIs and therefore the jdk package would need to be exported by a JDK-specific - there are no obvious candidates at the moment as we have yet to introduce a jdk.base module.
Comments
Code review started here: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2016-January/037918.html
07-01-2016
JEP 261 includes a proposal to remove this annotation in JDK 9.
10-09-2015
There is a strong desire to remove this in JDK 9 before the module system goes in. Accordingly, I moved this issue to the Ana milestone.
22-07-2015
One reason to leave the annotation in JDK 9 is so that it is feasible for external tooling to have a consistent way to checked exported-ness across the JDK 8 to JDK 9 boundary.
06-01-2015