JDK-8081587 : Improve CDS classlist generation documentation
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: performance
  • Sub-Component: hotspot
  • Affected Version: 8u60,9
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2015-06-01
  • Updated: 2016-05-09
  • Resolved: 2016-05-09
Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-8023041 - The CDS classlist needs to be updated for JDK 8
Relates :  
JDK-8081589 - Output of -XX:+TraceClassLoadingPreorder in JDK9 incompatible with MakeClasslist tool
Description
When regenerating the CDS classlist for JDK8 (see discussion in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023041) the classes generated from netbeans50 was dropped from inclusion in the JDK classlist, while the documentation surrounding this was not updated to reflect this, e.g., jdk/make/non-build-utils/sharing/README.txt

Update the instructions and procedures to manually refresh the classlist, alternatively move the build instructions to some global documentation.
Comments
As classlists are now generated as part of the build and future 8u updates are unlikely to really need a refresh this improvement is no longer applicable.
09-05-2016