On 01/06/2018 23:02, 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/
You are right that moving to modules has blurred the historical
distinction between what we used to know as the JDK and JRE and I
completely agree that the JRE is now a relic and just not interesting
since JDK 9. However, dropping the ability to build the "jre" image is a
significant change and I think will need to be socialized more widely as
it will likely impact downstream installers and other consumers of the
build. It may even need a JEP.
-Alan
