Steve,

Any reason the JarEntry.get/setSize() are the only ZipEntry methods get 
overridden?

-Sherman

On 10/14/2015 09:07 AM, Steve Drach wrote:
Hi,

Let’s try again, this time there are tests.  Please review the following webrev 
that adds support for multi-release jars as specified in JEP-238.

Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8132734
JEP 238: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8047305
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/multiversion-jar/jar-webrev/

A multi-release jar file is a jar file that contains a manifest with a main attribute named 
"Multi-Release", and also contains a directory "META-INF/versions" with subdirectories that 
contain versioned entries segregated by the major version of Java platform releases. A versioned entry, with a 
version n, in the "META-INF/versions/{n}" directory overrides the unversioned root entry as well as 
any entry with a version number i  where i<  n.

The changes in this webrev implement an aliasing mechanism in JarEntry so that 
when a JarFile client retrieves a JarEntry, the data from the entry pointed to 
by the alias is returned.  There are methods to configure whether or not 
aliasing is enabled, and if it is, which version of an entry the alias points 
to.

When a JarFile is used by a class loader to load class resources, the default 
version retrieved is the runtime version of the Java platform (i.e. a version 9 
entry is returned when the platform is JDK 9).  This mechanism can be 
configured by System properties.

Thanks,
Steve

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