Re: Illegal Package-Private Accesses in 3.4

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at mckinlay dot net dot nz>]

On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 18:45 Pacific/Auckland, Mark Wielaard wrote:

> > Since NameFinder and StackTrace are both in the same package, wouldn't
> > a simpler solution be to pass "trace" itself and have NameFinder call
> > the stackTraceAddrs?
>
> But for not just this, but also for the public access reason (and
> because StackTrace does have some nice methods that will be useful for
> implementing some of the SecurityManger things) StackTrace and
> NameFinder are no longer in the same package (with my patch).

OK, go ahead. I guess StackTrace does conceptually belong in java.lang 
due to its close relationship with Throwable. In fact, perhaps 
StackTrace and the VMThrowable class should be merged?

> > It would be cleaner to keep these things in the same package wherever
> > possible. If we're worried about user code calling NameFinder being a
> > security risk, we could add a security check to its constructor.
>
> Then I would vote for moving NameFinder also inside java.lang as 
> package
> private.

Actually I think its fine where it is.

Regards

Bryce.