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| Summary: | profiler relies on non-standard api's | ||
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| Product: | profiler | Reporter: | apb <apb> |
| Component: | Base | Assignee: | issues@profiler <issues> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | blocker | ||
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 5.x | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
| Attachments: | profiler output | ||
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Description
apb
2007-07-02 18:33:06 UTC
Created attachment 44636 [details]
profiler output
Another thing it seems to be relying on is ClassLoader.findBootstrapClass(java.lang.String) which seems to be a non-standard API call. At least I'm unable to find it anywhere under: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoader.html Nor does ClassLoader extend or implement anything which provides this call. The profiler clearly states in its release notes (http://profiler.netbeans.org/relnotes.html#req_sw) that it requires Sun JDK 1.5.0_04 and above or Sun JDK 1.6.0 b26 and above, or Apple J2SE 5.0 Release 3 and above. Given that, this cannot be a DEFECT. If you want the profiler to run on other JDK, please change this issue to ENHANCEMENT, otherwise it will be closed as INVALID. I've changed this to "Enhancement" as requested. However, this bug is a really about reliance on non-standard APIs rather than it not working on any particular platform and thus applies to the current release and use. I've changed this to "Enhancement" as requested. However, this bug is really about reliance on non-standard APIs rather than it not working on any particular platform and thus applies to the current release and use. On a separate note, usually when people say that something requires a particular version of a piece of software -- it means that the software has been tested and known to work on that software and your results may vary on other similar software -- not that it requires proprietary APIs that would prevent it from ever working on anything else which might fully implement the public API of the software in question. You are right - but for the profiler it really means that it *requires* Sun's JDK. Please note that the profiler engine is based on JFluid tool developed in SunLabs which originally worked just with modified Sun's 1.4.2-based JDK. It was a great enhancement when we added support for standard Sun 1.5 and 1.6 JDK. Supporting JDKs from other vendors might be logical next step, but it's really an enhancement. |