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

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon Jun 4 20:05:58 UTC 2018

On 04/06/2018 20:45, Bob Vandette wrote:

If we do this, shouldn’t we provide an aggregator module to allow developers to easily create a Java runtime with the same list of modules?  AFAIK, this doesn’t exists. The java.se <http://java.se> module is not the same.  It’s missing many modules. That creates an attractive nuisance in that developers would end requiring it (with `requires) and it's not a "platform" or a module that someone should be depending on.  As I recall, that was part of the reason why the proposed "jdk.jre" aggregator was dropped during the JDK 9 development. It may be something for the Packaging Tool (draft JEP JDK-8200758). I could imagine the build for the packaging tool generating a list of modules that the tool uses when creating packages for end-user applications.

-Alan

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