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On 5/1/2017 4:00 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 5/1/2017 2:53 PM, Eric Douglas wrote:
>> On Monday, May 1, 2017 at 2:33:42 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> A lot of applications should run fine unchanged on Java 9.
>>>
>>> But some will see some problems.
>>>
>>> I think the two main categories of problems will be:
>>> * usage of sun.* and com.sun.* classes that are no longer accessible
>
>     As I understand it (perhaps imperfectly), the com.sun.* classes are
> fine.  They're not part of Java per se, but are "fine" in the same sense
> that other non-core contributed classes like Apache Commons are.
>
>     It's the sun.* classes that are "Subject to change without notice;
> the Secretary will disavow all knowledge, hic draecones."

That is also how I thought it was.

But com.sun.java.swing.plaf classes are not exported ...

Arne