The following enhancements are introduced:
Area: Tools
Standard/Platform: JDK 7
Synopsis: A succinct and concise error message is printed,
as appropriate, when an error occurs during the Java launcher
initialization. The full stack trace will be printed when
applicable, or when the error has trickled up from the ClassLoader
or Reflection APIs.
RFE: 6968053
Area: Tools
Standard/Platform: JDK 7
Synopsis: Previously, the pack200 tool defaulted to using
java6 packfiles in the absence of any java6 (or newer) classfiles
in a segment. Starting with JDK 7, the pack200 tool defaults to
using java5 packfiles for maximum compatibility.
RFE: 6712743
Area: Tools
Standard/Platform: JDK 7
Synopsis: On Solaris only, the JRE and JDK distributions had
the following symbolic link (symlink):
jre/lib/libjvm.so->client/libjvm.so. This was provided
as a transition aid from Solaris Production JRE to the Java
Reference version (more precisely ExactVM to HotSpot). This symlink
will cease to exist and is no longer supported.
Applications (usually legacy Solaris applications with a custom
launcher) that have assumed the existence of this symlink, must
relink with the desired library (implementing server or client), or
must dynamically link with the desired VM. They can also create
that symlink manually or copy the desired library implementing the
VM, though this is not a recommended practice and may cause
undesired side effects.
RFE: 6899834
Area: Tools
Standard/Platform: JDK 7
Synopsis: The HtmlConverter tool is no longer part of the
JDK 7 distribution (starting with b128).
RFE: 4523289
Area: Tools
Standard/Platform: JDK 7
Synopsis: The default values for the cryptographic
algorithms used by the keytool and jarsigner
utilities have been updated to be stronger. See the
keytool and jarsigner tool docs for more
information.
RFE: 6561126
Area: Tools
Standard/Platform: JDK 7
Synopsis: The keytool and jarsigner tools
now support the ECC algorithm in keypair generation and jar
signing.
RFE: 6870812
Area: Tools
Standard/Platform: JDK 7
Synopsis: A new keytool command (-gencert)
is provided to generate a non self-signed certificate. A new option
(-ext) is provided to generate several X.509 v3 extensions
for the -gencert, -genkeypair, and
-certreq commands. There are also other new commands and
options for the keytool and jarsigner tools. See
the keytool and
jarsigner tool docs
for more information.
RFE: 6780416,
6802846,
6324292,
6890872
Area: Tools
Standard/Platform: JDK 7
Synopsis: In JDK 7, the javadoc tool has been
updated to use style markup classes that can control the styles of
the generated pages. With the -stylesheetfile option, you can
provide an alternate stylesheet file to be used. Without this
option, the javadoc tool automatically creates a
stylesheet file called "stylesheet.css". You can override this
default with another file name, for example:
C:> javadoc -stylesheetfile C:\user\exampleStylesheet.css com.examplePackageThe generated pages have style markups for various sections. Through the stylesheet file you can define styles for these sections. The default stylesheet file is sorted according to each style in that section. You can customize the styles for:
