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

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Fri Jun 1 22:37:51 UTC 2018

JREs are a very long tradition. I suggest deferring disruptive changes like this to some release past jdk11.

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> 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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