15497 - Proxy identity

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Java to XPCOM Bridge, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Frank Mitchell]

Given two proxy references in the same environment, the system must ensure that
if two proxies wrap the same object as the same interface, the references point
to the same proxy object.

This latter restriction, in the Java world, will require a table of proxies with
weak references to each Java proxy instance.  Since weak references are only
supported in Java 2, to work on Macintosh it may be sufficient that each Java
object refers to the same index in a C++ proxy table.

C++ proxies must also be registered in a table as weak references, to prevent
reference counting cycles.

Comment 1

[Frank Mitchell]

Assign to self, until other help emerges.

Comment 2

[Dawn Endico]

Frank Mitchell no longer works at Sun and his email is bouncing. Reassigning
his 21 bugs to george for reassignment.

Comment 3

[drapeau]

Re-assigning to lead engineer for BlackConnect, Igor Kushnirskiy.

Comment 4

[jhp (no longer active)]

Blackconnect no longer builds and hasn't been worked on since 2001.  -> WONTFIX

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by ffxbld-merge:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/5dca0c36be8c
[fenix] For https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/15497: Hide and remove the three dot menu from the Desktop Bookmarks folder (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/15649)