How is this DRM-like? It seems to me that this is putting control in the hands of the application developer instead of the library developer, not moving it to Oracle or anyone else...
So, like I said: if you're a big HFT fund and you need your JVM to do crazy integrity assertions, good for you, but don't burn the whole world down for them. Hell, I would be Azul makes a killing catering to that audience, so let them sell an integrity enabled JVM and leave the rest of us out of this fight
> the big fat zero of times where someone has complained about an integrity violation on the JVM
~99% of the migration difficulties from 8 to 9+ were due to integrity violations of the core library (remember, module encapsulation was turned off by default until JDK 16). The cost of that alone is, well, high, and that doesn't even count library vulnerabilities. Integrity violations have been the #1 cause of complaints over the last several years.
Integrity is important because it is a prerequisite to portability ("upgradability"), security, correctness, and some important performance optimisations. If you haven't heard people complain a lot about any of these things then you haven't been listening.