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  2. JDK-5001896

Sun-specific RuntimeMBean.getSystemProperties should return String[][]

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      com.sun.management.RuntimeMBean.getSystemProperties currently returns
      CompositeData where each item name is the property name. It means that
      potentially, every time you retrieve this value it has a different CompositeType.

      Different CompositeType is not desired since it may restrict future
      evolution.

      Eamonn pointed out this issue and suggests the following approaches:

      > I just now saw this new method. The proposed approach of returning a
      > CompositeData where each item has the property name as its name and the
      > property value as its value seems strange to me. It means that,
      > potentially, every time you retrieve this value it has a different
      > CompositeType. Likewise, it means that if some day this MBean becomes
      > an Open MBean, its OpenMBeanInfo will not be constant.
      >
      > I can see at least three better approaches:
      >
      > (1) The type is String[], where each element is "name=value".
      > (2) The type is String[][], where value[i][0] is the name of property i
      > and value[i][1] is its value.
      > (3) The type is TabularData, where the associated TabularType has as its
      > rowType a CompositeType with items "name" and "value", and where "name"
      > is the index.
      >

      Since the system properties are simply name-value pairs and are Strings,
      change getSystemProperties to return String[][].

            mchung Mandy Chung (Inactive)
            mchung Mandy Chung (Inactive)
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