RFR: JDK-8200132: Remove jre images and bundles (original) (raw)

Erik Joelsson erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Mon Jun 4 21:22:41 UTC 2018

Given the feedback, I have revised the patch to restore the ability to produce a legacy jre image, but it is still removed from the default "product-images" and "images" targets. To build it you need to specify it explicitly as "legacy-jre-image" (or mac-legacy-jre-bundle for the macosx specific image layout). I still removed the bundle targets for the jre image as I very much doubt anyone except Oracle was using them anyway. In addition to this, I also updated the help text a bit to reflect these changes.

Will this be good enough for those that still need a JRE image?

Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8200132/webrev.02/index.html

/Erik

On 2018-06-01 15:02, Erik Joelsson wrote:

Since JDK 9 and modules, the idea of a prebuilt JRE is no longer providing much value. The idea is rather that you link together an image with the modules and settings you actually need, either with or without your application. For this reason oracle will no longer ship JRE images that differ content wise to the JDK image in JDK 11 and we would like to remove them from the OpenJDK build to reduce complexity.

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200132 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8200132/webrev.01/ /Erik

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