8005716: Enhance JNI specification to allow support of static JNI libraries in Embedded JREs

Reviewed-by: dlong, alanb, mduigou

src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp

 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (c) 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 # include "os_bsd.inline.hpp"
 #endif
 
-static jint CurrentVersion = JNI_VERSION_1_6;
+static jint CurrentVersion = JNI_VERSION_1_8;
 
 
 // The DT_RETURN_MARK macros create a scoped object to fire the dtrace

src/share/vm/prims/jni.h

 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -1951,6 +1951,7 @@ JNI_OnUnload(JavaVM *vm, void *reserved);
 #define JNI_VERSION_1_2 0x00010002
 #define JNI_VERSION_1_4 0x00010004
 #define JNI_VERSION_1_6 0x00010006
+#define JNI_VERSION_1_8 0x00010008
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 } /* extern "C" */

src/share/vm/runtime/thread.cpp

@@ -4061,6 +4061,7 @@ jboolean Threads::is_supported_jni_version(jint version) {
   if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_2) return JNI_TRUE;
   if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_4) return JNI_TRUE;
   if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_6) return JNI_TRUE;
+  if (version == JNI_VERSION_1_8) return JNI_TRUE;
   return JNI_FALSE;
 }